Mon dieu! If The League Of Gentleman made a three-hour sketch slandering modern French movies, it might just scale the preposterous peaks mounted by this yawn-a-thon. With pretensions to be both a meditation on the nature of fidelity and a high Shakespearean tragedy of internecine feuding, this is in fact a tortuous sequence of strangers having wordless sex for no apparent reason, then flagellating themselves silly with unspecified guilt.
Marceau is an attractive lead, but after two hours of watching her flouncy photographer vacillate between duty and desire you will want to punch her in the face. Astonishingly, this corpulent carcass was selected as lead ambassador for a selection of French films touring the UK. Quelle erreur! It’s enough to put you off French films forever.