Pierre Kast

Various people around the world (most of them scientists interested in unexplained phenomenons or people studying the occult) start having hallucinations and wake up with a specific mark on the palm of their hands.

A routine, wordy romantic drama about far-from-routine relationships, this tale by Pierre Kast looks at the personalities and love life of two couples. (allmovie)

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too. (imdb)

Françoise and Jean-Pierre invite some friends to a mansion in Portugal because they are bored.

During a hunting trip a small group of men tell their version of a romance and then the distaff side relives the same experiences from their point of view. The realities of insecurity and love lost, show up in most instances. Some men in a bookstore lose out when a new goodlooking bookkeeper is hired whom the women can't resist. A poet just seems to suffer through his unfortunate relationships and a quartet of women discover they cant shuffle around four different men between them with impunity.

The film presents the art paintings of Rochegrosse, Comerre, Falero, Bouguerau, Nola, Bonnat, Penot, and other turn-of-the-19th-century artists who, with their treatment of the poetic way to show the feminine body, have had an influence on the birth of an erotic line of movies.