A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau’s period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the…

Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into…