Le Bon Plaisir

A French political comedy written by a woman who ought to know her subject, as she used to be a minister in the government after first having been a screenwriter (ANTOINE AND ANTOINETTE, 1947). Girardot is a young purse snatcher who steals the purse of Deneuve. It might just be an ordinary street crime except that the bag contained a letter written to her, many years before, by the man who is now the president of the Republic. Deneuve and the president, Trintignant, were once lovers. When she became pregnant, she left for the US and there had a son, of whose existence Trintignant is unaware. Trintignant is in a bad marriage with Winter, who admits that she wouldn't...