Unfazed by the daunting fact that bad melodramas outnumber good ones by a considerable margin, Belgian writer/director Lucas Belvaux capped his ambitious trilogy of genre exercises — which chronicles the misadventures of a group of acquaintances in Grenoble, France, across three very different films — with a sudsy tale of marriage on the rocks. Belvaux is no Douglas Sirk, but the film is an admirable, if uneven, conclusion to an audacious project. The film's spotlight is occupied by police inspector Pascal (Gilbert Melki) and his wife, Agnes (Dominique Blanc), a schoolteacher who's been addicted to morphine for the past 20 years. Throughout their 15-year ma...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
124 mins