Maria Schneider

Elizabeth sends telegrams to her old boyfriend Ben in New York and to her younger sister, Leo, in Rome to join her in Paris, where she is selling her dead father's estate.

A stressed-out mother of two takes a much-needed vacation in France, where she encounters a charming lesbian who represents a new way of life.

Academy Award winners William Hurt (1985 Best Actor-Kiss Of the Spider Woman, 1986) and Anna Paquin (Best Supporting Actress, The Piano, 1994) lead an all-star cast in this story of passion and intrigue. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Gainsbourg, 21 Grams) is a young woman whose will to overcome a life of hardship leads her into a passionate romance with a handsome- and mysterious-gentleman (Hurt). Swept...