Michel Vionnet

The third of a very fruitful on-going collaboration between French director Benoît Jacquot and young actress (and great director in her own right) Isild Le Besco, this gorgeous black and white paean to a post-New Wave era is an excited and poetic exploration of a youthful, searching free spirit.

Making a delightful mockery of male selfishness and paternal control, Nelly Kaplan’s riotous kidnapping comedy revels in the zany pleasure of misbehaving. Ingeniously adept at turning men into obedient lapdogs, Sheila White’s adorably kooky heiress kicks, screams, and seduces her way to freedom.