Directed by Andrzej Zulawski
With Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory
(2000) 165min, 35mm
Photographer Cielia’s (Marceau) artsy shots incur the ire of her tabloid magazine employer while she struggles to remain faithful to her husband in the face of an overpowering attraction to another man. Zulawski’s take on the 17th-century novel La Princesse De Clèves is relatively restrained, by the director’s demented standards—meaning that it still manages to pack in freewheeling subplots involving Murdoch empire-type rumor mongering, human organ-trafficking, violent gangsters, nude hockey players, kinky sex, and a show-stopping performance by Marceau to match the operatic-grandeur of Isabelle Adjani in Possession and Romy Schneider in That Most Important Thing: Love.
