Christine Angot

Adapted from Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, which deconstructs the language of love. (imdb)

In the late 1950s in Châteauroux, France, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young man born to a bourgeois family. This brief but passionate connection results in the birth of a daughter, Chantal. Philippe refuses to marry outside of his social class and Rachel has to raise their daughter alone. (imdb)

A series of monologues and conversations that depict the life and breadth of a relationship.

A love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.

Angot visits Strasbourg where her now-deceased father lived. In this city she first met him at 13 when the sexual abuse began, lasting for years. Angot knocks the doors of her family to clarify their attitudes to her father's crime. (imdb)