THE TEMPTATION OF ISABELLE

It’s Isabelle’s birthday. Celebrating the event, Bruno, her boyfriend, takes her to a hotel where she runs into one of her ex-boyfriends, Alain. Alain is accompanied by his current girlfriend Lio and the meeting quickly turns into a violent argument with dramatic consequences.

In Jacques Doillon’s abrasive melodrama, an encounter between two couples takes tragic proportions as the quartet of lovers play with burning jealousy and possessive desire. The vampiristic and self-destructive impulses of love are explored with piercing honesty and through impassioned performances.