I am your sister, Isabelle." In a long, long monologue (it is a stand-alone section in the novel), she tells her story. One night as he is roaring through the woods on his motorcycle, he surprises her lurking in the gloom, pursues her and hears her story: "Believe me, Pierre, you are not an only child. The sight of her fills him with deep churnings and obscure dreams. There is a mystery woman ( Katerina Golubeva), deep-eyed, long-haired, ragged and wolf-like, who shadows Pierre. He refers to them as "the three inseparables," but the other two lean toward separability. Also on the scene, having recently returned from his labors on the Chicago Stock Exchange, is a dark-browed cousin, Thibault ( Laurent Lucas), who in his satanic way resents that Pierre will take Lucie out of his grasp, and also perhaps that Lucie will take Pierre out of his grasp.
Pierre is engaged to his cousin Lucie ( Delphine Chuillot), who lives in a neighboring chalet and is an ethereal blonde waif his mother could no more be jealous of Lucie than if Pierre adopted a cute spaniel. Deneuve is able to make scenes like these work because she can float above the carnal, in a realm where sex is a whim rather than a function. They are alarmingly close they call each other "my brother" and "my sister," he lights two cigarettes and gives her one, he visits her nude in her bath and so on. He tells the story of Pierre ( Guillaume Depardieu), a spoiled young aristocrat who has written a trendy best-selling novel and lives in a chateau with his mother Marie ( Catherine Deneuve). Dealing as it does with Pierre's incestuous obsessions with a mother and a half-sister, it was not what admirers of the great white whale were expecting.Ĭarax sets his story in present-day France, although with the exception of a few cars, motorcycles, props and street scenes, its period could be the 19th century. Melville wrote at white-hot speed, he said, as if in a dream, and for many years it was unavailable in an uncensored version (an unexpurgated edition was published in the 1990s).
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