Jean Chevalier

Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl's life upside down. (imdb)

Paris, 1985. Vanessa was thirteen when she met Gabriel Matzneff, a renowned writer in his fifties. The young teenager becomes the mistress and muse of this celebrated cultural and political figure. Losing herself in the relationship, she suffers more and more violently from the destructive hold this predator exerts over her.