Jean-Claude Laureux

Making a delightful mockery of male selfishness and paternal control, Nelly Kaplan’s riotous kidnapping comedy revels in the zany pleasure of misbehaving. Ingeniously adept at turning men into obedient lapdogs, Sheila White’s adorably kooky heiress kicks, screams, and seduces her way to freedom.

In Jacques Doillon’s abrasive melodrama, an encounter between two couples takes tragic proportions as the quartet of lovers play with burning jealousy and possessive desire. The vampiristic and self-destructive impulses of love are explored with piercing honesty and through impassioned performances.