Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. One evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. For his own bewilderment, he discovers the sublime horrors in which the woman has sank.

The memory of a man's love for a stranger woman and her mystery death. Based on the short story 'The Crimson Curtain' by Barbey d'Aurevilly.

Когда кончается любовь мужчины? После проведенной вместе ночи? После первой измены? После 10 лет совместной жизни? Или она может закончится только вместе с жизнью, и не важно, сколько было ссор и измен, расставаний и примирений. Маркиза Флер решает выдать свою внучку, жемчужину знатного аристократического рода, за дворянина Рино де Мариньи. Тот искренне влюблен в прелестное создание, но вместе с тем не пропускает ни одной красивой юбки. Маркиза узнает тайну Рино: этот неисправимый донжуан является тайным любовником и жертвой скандальной куртизанки, дочери герцогини и тореадора. Удастся ли разуму Рино одержать победу над его страстями? Сохранит ли Мариньи верность невесте?

Adapted from Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.

Spectacular Italian comedy-drama directed by Carmelo Bene. The narrative follows how Don Giovanni tries to seduce a young woman who is manically searching for Christian icons. The film is loosely based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story "The Greatest Love of Don Juan", from the collection Les Diaboliques. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.

An adaptation of the novel by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly.

The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doctor Torty is the doctor. He tells a story of which he is the only one to know the secret, that of a criminal couple, without any remorse. The pretty Hauteclaire Stassin, daughter of the master of arms, meets the Count of Savigny, married to the noble and languid Delphine. Madly in love with the count, Hauteclaire joined the castle as a servant. Shortly after, the countess died of poisoning. Will the guilty lovers go unpunished?

A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold politeness bordering on indifference.

"A Woman's Revenge" - In order to punish her cold, brutal aristocratic husband for murdering her lover, a woman becomes a common prostitute to shame him.