Oltre la notte
Rue du Bac (original)
Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer.
Starring Geneviève Bujold, Frédéric Constant, Yves Dangerfield, Françoise Brion, Edith Scob, Facundo Bo, Svéva Aghion, Marucha Bo, Diane Doniol-Valcroze, Dumitru Furdui
Watch "Oltre la notte" on Netflix released in 1991. It's a drama and comedy movie, and has a rating of 4.6 out of 10 from Imdb which is fairly low for this kind of movie.