Fidelity
Fidelity is a 2000 French drama film written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski and starring Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory and Guillaume Canet. Based on Madame de La Fayette's 1678 novel La Princesse de Clèves, the film follows a talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer. Filmed on location in Paris, Fidelity received the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival Award for Best Actress (Marceau) and the Golden Swann Award (Zulawski).
Plot
Talented Canadian photographer Clélia lands a lucrative job in Paris with a tabloid called La Verite run by scandal-mongerer Rupert MacRoi. Clélia's mother once dated MacRoi years ago while working as a cabaret singer. Once she became pregnant with Clélia, she stopped seeing MacRoi and married Clélia's father. Accompanying her daughter to Paris, she tells Clélia that her strongest principle was honour, and encourages her to get married and settle down.
More details
author | Andrzej Żuławski |
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contentLocation | France |
director | Andrzej Żuławski |
editor | Marie-Sophie Dubus |
genre | drama |
keywords | attack build cabaret singer dead husband dedicate dinner party disillusion engagement ring even fashion model flower arrangements heart attack injured kill learn locker room married woman organ trade plougastel-daoulas publishing house read run session set on fire sleep surround their way tree branch walk wedding ring |
musicBy | Andrzej Korzynski |
producer | Paulo Branco |
productionCompany | France 3 Cinéma Gemini Films |
publisher | Gemini Films |
theme | spy |