Nowhere are love and philosophy blended so whimsically as in the French cinema. One of France's most promising young auteurs, Pascale Ferran gives us this hearty and heady blend in her "comédie dépressive," The Age of Possibilities. Working with ten exuberant actors from the National Theater of Strasbourg, Ferran has fashioned an episodic, humorously intertwined story about underemployed twentysomethings struggling with failed liaisons and a flurry of flirtations, all bound up in the ostentatious chatter of young adulthood. Regardless of their contempo style, each of these captivating characters is brittle and unnerved before the dubious possibilities of the future. As passion and disappointment collide in a final party scene, we learn that adulthood is also the age of responsibility. Ferran's second feature earned France's highest award for television drama, the Sept d'or.