Bernard Brégier

2001年度のアカデミーで2部門にノミネートされた異色ホラー。吸血鬼映画に出演した俳優は、実は本物の吸血鬼だった、というブラック・ユーモアたっぷりのドラマ。

16世紀フランス、摂政のカトリーヌは対立するカトリックとプロテスタントを和解させるため、娘マルゴを政略結婚させる。文豪デュマ原作の小説をパトリス・シェローが監督した歴史大作。

セシルの純潔を汚させようするメルトイユ侯爵夫人の計画と、それを実行するバルモン子爵……。18世紀のフランス革命前夜、貴族社交界を舞台に繰り広げられた快楽と退廃の人間模様を描いた、88年アメリカ作品。

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.

India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an object of desire and fascination. The Vice Consul is driven insane by his love for her and, expelled from the ambassador’s palace, cries like a sick animal. Life continues for Anne-Marie Stretter, the same tedious existence…