Product Details

• Actors: Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet
• Directors: Andrzej Zulawski
• Format: NTSC, Import
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Run Time: 165 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001J25S96
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #415,299 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Talented Canadian photographer Clelia (Sophie Marceau) lands a financially lucrative job in Paris at a rumor-mongering tabloid called La Verite run by Rupert MacRoi (Michel Subor). Though she finds most of her coworkers to be disillusioned and perverse, she happens upon Cleve (Pascal Greggory), a bumbling middle-aged children's book publisher. Cleve is days away from marrying MacRoi's daughter to bolster his flagging publishing house. Nonetheless, Clelia and Cleve retire to his office to make love almost immediately upon meeting. Though MacRoi has already bought his company, Cleve breaks off his wedding plans and proposes to Clelia. Enter Nemo (Guillaume Canet), a sexy young photographer who promptly propositions her upon their first encounter. In spite of her ferocious sexual attract to Nemo, Clelia marries Cleve and resolutely keeps to her wedding vows in the face of her suitor's continued advances. Madame de la Fayette's novel, from which this film draws inspiration, has already been adapted twice: the 1961 version was directed by Jean Delannoy and starred Marina Vlady, and the 1999 take, entitled The Letter was directed by Manoel de Oliveira and featured Chiara Mastroianni. Sinopsis: Clélia, una joven fotógrafa con talento, resulta contratada por Lucien Mac Roi, un magnate canadiense de la prensa amarilla, con miras a recuperar la imagen del grupo. Este hombre está rodeado por una verdadera corte que con-trola su amante, Diane, y que integran en su mayor parte personajes con oscuras intenciones. Contrario a este mundo, Clève, un edi-tor de 35 años, honesto y atento, poseedor de cierto genio literario, se enamora inmediatamente de Clélia. Cautivada por la atractiva torpeza de Clève, Clélia conviene en casarse con él. Al compartir el mismo amor por la imagen, por ese instante robado a la realidad, la complicidad que crece entre ambos se transforma en amor apasionado, que sólo se expresará a través de la fotografía

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Love story with complications, April 1, 2008

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Bill (Aurora, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fidelity ( La Fidélité ) ( seXuelles ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ] (DVD)

Sophie plays a woman who is very cool emotionally, although smoldering with sensuality. The plot involves her settling for a rather bland husband, then later having an affair with a rugged, dangerous co-worker. Not nearly as unusual as her other Zulawski films, you will still benefit from a healthy appetite for foreign cinema to really enjoy this. I recommend this really if you're a fan of Sophie or Zulawski; if you want to see Sophie's charms in more accessible (though no less french) films, try Fanfan or La Fille de D'Artangan. Or if you don't speak french and sub-titles are not your thing, her one brilliant English-speaking role is in Firelight.