YVONNE'S PERFUME (1994)

From acclaimed director Patrice Leconte (Girl on the Bridge, The Hairdresser’s Husband), Yvonne’s Perfume is a mysterious and romantic drama of desire. In the early 1950s, on the shores of a lake wedged between France and Switzerland, a trio of holiday travelers meet, clash, and fall in and out of friendship and love. Adapted from the novel Ville Triste by Nobel Prize-winner Patrick Modiano, it follows Victor (Hippolyte Girardot, The French Dispatch) a deserter escaping his past who lusts after the beautiful actress Yvonne (Sandra Majani). Their push-pull flirtation attracts the attention of gay bon vivant Dr. Meinthe (Jean-Pierre Marielle, The Da Vinci Code), who can’t help but insert himself into their tryst. But their idyllic holiday can’t last forever.