Juliette Brac
- 1991
A group of teens leave their comfortable homes on a trip south to the Pyrennes Mountains in order to find a treasure that they have read about. Simultaneously, a fourteen-year-old boy has grown so fixated on Clo (Andréa Ferreol), a mature woman, that he has run away to be with her. After treating him appropriately for his age, she follows her own curiosity and they briefly engage in a sexual relationship, after which she resumes her role as an adult and sees to it that he returns to his family, which has been suspicious of their relationship all along. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andréa Ferréol, Juliette Brac, (more)
- 1982
"Little Joseph" is only seven years old and not sophisticated enough to adjust to the fact that his family seems incapable of relating to him in human terms. His grandparents are militant leftists dedicated to their profession of teaching because they value education at the cost of most other pursuits and are oblivious to the human wasteland that characterizes their own family. Joseph's father is a rigid demagogue who negates his wife's lighter hand, and since they are in the process of separating anyway, Joseph is destined to be a child of custody battles and single-parent households -- an unrecognized casualty in a world of egocentric adults. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean-Marc Thibault, Juliette Brac, (more)
- 1981
Clothilde de Watteville (Lauren Hutton) is compared to "Hecate," a three-headed Greek fertility goddess and a protector of witches who came to be associated with Persphone and Hades. Clothilde/Hecate runs into Julien Rochelle (Bernard Giraudeau), a very young French diplomat in north Africa just before the outbreak of World War II and the two have a casual sexual encounter that leads to another such meeting, and another. His interest in her and his curiosity are heightened when she refuses to reveal any information about herself, and when she disappears for stretches at a time without any explanation. As his sexual passions increase at a par with his frustration at her behavior, he gives up trying to relate at all and walks out of the relationship. A few years later they meet at a diplomatic reception in Berne, the diplomat is older and perhaps wiser, but Clothilde's behavior is an inexplicable as ever. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bernard Giraudeau, Lauren Hutton, (more)
