Novel
A França do século 16 está dividida pela guerra entre protestantes e católicos. Apaixonada por seu primo (o duque Henri de Guise) Marie de Mézières é obrigada a se casar com o católico príncipe Philippe de Montpensier, que nunca conheceu. Quando parte para lutar contra os protestantes ao lado do rei Carlos IX, o príncipe a manda para uma estada sob os cuidados do Conde de Chabannes. Mas a paixão antiga encontrará meios de se manifestar.
Novel
Clélia is a very attractive photographer starting a new job for a sensationalist newspaper. She soon becomes involved with three very different men: Cléve, a middle aged books editor, Nemo, a mysterious photographer and Rupert McRoi, the owner of the broadcasting and tabloid company where she works.
Writer
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.
Novel
When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainments found at court, the princess cannot help but mourn her impossible love for the dashing Duc de Nemours.
