Annette

Comme elles ont l'habitude, Annette et Clara se retrouvent chez leur amie Valérie pour parler de leurs histoires d'amour. Annette fait l'inventaire de ses amants pour trouver celui avec lequel elle pourrait faire sa vie. Clara, elle, ne songe qu'à rencontrer un homme riche et influent. Quant à Valérie, elle s'estime une épouse et une mère comblée. Mais lorsque Yves, son mari, rentre d'un voyage d'affaires, il tombe sur la liste d'Annette…

The three colors are blue, white and red. They are the colors of the French flag, of course, and they are appropriated by director Krzysztof Kieslowski along with the themes of the motto they more or less represent: liberty, equality, fraternity. But the films Three Colors: Blue (1993), Three Colors: White (1993), and Three Colors: Red (1994) are not hymns to patriotism or national identity and the Polish Kieslowski hasn’t any predisposition to making a statement at France. It’s better to think of this trilogy in similar terms as his The Decalogue, ten short films in which he reflects upon the Ten Commandments in terms more suggestive than literal. They are about morality in terms of life in Poland in 1989 and it is that vast collage of life experience in that time and place that is so powerful.

Kerwin Matthews, playing a dissolute drifter down on his luck, Jeff Farrell, is stranded in a cheap bar in France where he falls for Annette, the proprietor's pretty stepdaughter, played by Liliane Brousse.

The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Augusten Burroughs' (Joseph Cross) childhood. His mother, Deirdre (Annette Bening), who wishes to become a famous poet, suffers from severe mood swings and erratic behavior. Augusten's alcoholic father, Norman (Alec Baldwin), proves to be of no help. By the time he is a teenager, Augusten no longer feels safe in his own house because of his parents…

Kathryn Merteuil and Sebastian Valmont are seductive, manipulative step-siblings who get what they want when they want it.