Chinese Roulette (1976)
1976Both parents of a young teen who walks with crutches secretly meet their lovers, who both surprise each other at the family’s country home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of “Chinese roulette.”
Actors: Macha Méril
Belle de Jour (1967)
1967A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her […]
Une Femme Mariée (1964) aka A Married Woman
1964A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover. Charlotte is young and modern, not a hair out of place, superficial, cool; she reads fashion magazines – does she have the perfect bust? She lives in a Paris suburb with her son and her husband Pierre, a pilot. Her lover is Robert, an actor. Assignations with him, dinner with her husband and a client, consulting a physician: there’s tension at […]