Elective Affinities

This beautifully photographed adaptation of a Goethe novel details the collapse of an aristocratic marriage. Carlotta (Isabelle Huppert, I Heart Huckabees) and Edouard (Jean-Hugues Anglade, Queen Margot) live in a peaceful and happy life in a picturesque Tuscan villa. Their marital bliss is shattered when Edouard's closet friend and Carlotta's goddaughter arrive for an extended stay. A dinner conversation about "elective affinities" in nature leads the four to experience the phenomenon in real life, drastically changing their lives forever.