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Returning after a decade away from filmmaking, Catherine Breillat examines desire and its power to destabilize in the story of Anne, a lawyer whose work centers on abused minors. Anne's life with her husband Pierre — an ineffectual businessman and father — looks enviable from the outside, but when Pierre's teenage son Théo comes to live with them, Anne finds herself compelled by the young man's beauty and begins an affair with him. The relationship threatens everything she has built, forcing her toward a choice between honesty and self-protection.

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In contemporary Paris, filmmaker Tomas, married to Martin for fifteen years, begins an affair with a young woman, Agathe, after a night of dancing. The impulsive encounter escalates into a battle of desire among the three, with Tomas's selfishness pushing both his husband and his lover toward breaking point as happiness stays just out of reach.

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Summoned by a note written in blood and smuggled out of a prison block, an idealistic young Soviet prosecutor pushes past wary jail authorities to interview an elderly, broken-down Bolshevik condemned as a political undesirable. Determined to expose the miscarriage of justice to Moscow, he finds his investigation steadily encircled by suspicion. Set at the height of Stalin's Great Purge, the film is a Kafkaesque portrait of the impunity of power and the everyday horrors of totalitarianism.