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The Colette’s Heroines Cycle The Other Woman (La Seconde, 1990) Director: Christopher Frank Presentation: France loves two things: Good art, and a good scandal. The French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette gave her countrymen plenty of both, changing literature across Europe, and shocking the world of early 20th century art with her endless mischief. This month, Eurochannel invites you to witness the salacious lifestyle of France’s most controversial author through four titillating movies. Colette was a woman who loved only the best, so Eurochannel is showing the crème de la crème of French cinema to tell her story. These four adaptations of her greatest literary works, created by award-winning directors such as Pierre Arditi, Evelyne Bouix, Caroline Cellier, Anny Duperey and Jean Rochefort, depict heroic women thrust into an endless parade of scandalous situations. In a good story there’s no such thing as boundaries, and The Colete’s Heroines Cycle shows this truth with tales like Julie de Carneilhan, The Duo, The Other Woman and The Ripening Seed, each one a true-to-life testimony about the challenges faced by French women in the beginnings of the 20th century.Synopsis: Farou (Jean Rochefort) is an author whose success is matched only by his lechery. During the rehearsal of his newest play, a scandal unfolds: Farou’s wife Fanny (Anny Duperey) knows that during his “creative” periods, her husband gets a particular itch that he can’t resist scratching, but her own jealousy has finally reached the boiling point. It starts when Jane (Caroline Sihol), the oh-so-perfect secretary that Farou has brought on as a live in assistant, falls in love with the artist. Trivia: • The actor Jean Rochefort became a horse breeder after he discovered his passion for horses during the shooting of Cartouche.• Anny Duperey is also a successful writer, with bestselling books such as Mazarin's Nose, The Black Veil, The Fortune Cats and An Evening(2005). |
