Dir: Catherine Breillat
With: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou

It's petticoats, carriages and duels at dawn in this portrait of a love affair set in 19th-century Paris. Having established a reputution for sex scenes so explicit they frightened any passing horses clean out of their shoes, director Catherine Breillat takes a relatively coy approach to the story of a rich young fop (Fu'ad Ait Aattou) and his tempestuous squeeze Vellini (Asia Argento). Stagey and ridiculously overblown in parts, but its Dangerous Liaisons style exerts a certain fatal attraction.