Unfaithful Wife

Unfaithful Wife (1986)

1986

The film concerns the attempts of Fidel to resume a normal life after the devastation wrought by his wife’s death. He returns to his old friend Crispin and wife Irene. A tentative effort with another woman fails, and Fidel finds himself in Irene’s arms. That same evening a young girl is brutally murdered. Fidel, unable to account for his whereabouts, is named the principal suspect, which later leads to his imprisonment. Crispin, meanwhile, learns of […]

Checkmate (1956) aka Le Coup du berger

1956

Claire (Virginie Vitry) is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Claude (Jean-Claude Brialy). As this 28-minute trifle opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Jean (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) at his apartment; after some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro indians used […]

Boiling Point (aka Intimate Illusions)

1978

This wild romp starts out as a pot-boiling thriller before turning into a full-fledged group sex spectacular. The first half of the film concerns hold-up man Jon Martin, who flees the scene of his crime — only to end up hiding out at the house of the same cop who’s chasing him! He makes the most of his time there, getting down and dirty with the cop’s delectable young wife. Soon enough, the cop comes […]

For a Woman

For a Woman (aka Pour une femme)

2013

After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious uncle who lived with her parents after the war. As she lifts the lid on a long forgotten family secret, the young woman learns that her mother once succumbed to an amorous passion that was as intense as it was short-lived…