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...rekindles an old college flame. Meanwhile the widow collects an entourage consisting of a lecherous old landowner, his Paris-educated fop of a son, a weasling Jewish merchant, and a brash horse thief named Ossip. Platonov's brother-in-law, a boozing doctor, and the widow's childish stepson, husband of Platonov's mistress, complete the menagerie...
Driscoll is also considering adding other products to the Smith name, but has no intention of tampering with the secret formula for the cough drops. It is known only to the late William Smith's stepson, now vice president in charge of product development, who each six months mixes a new batch of the formula in solitude...
...fortyish widow who invites her former lover to a reunion after a separation of 22 years. A freeloading weakling and barfly, Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kerien) arrives from Paris accompanied by a young actress he introduces as "my niece." The girl quickly attaches herself to the widow's melancholy stepson, recently returned from the war in Algeria. Soon the unlikely quartet is caught up in an orgy of reminiscence...
...Every evening she compulsively gambles away all she owns at the local casino. She spurns a stolid admirer who is in the demolition business, destroying the old to make way for the new in the "martyred city" of Boulogne. Most troubled of the four is the widow's stepson, who cannot forget (nor can any conscientious Frenchman, Resnais seems to suggest) the part he took in the torture and ultimate death of a young Algerian girl named Muriel. The boy's awful recollections are hidden away in recordings and photographs, part of his weird search for a sort...
...when he discovers that Lulu is still in love with Schon, an abusive former lover. Schon tries to escape the Lulu hex with another woman, but Lulu later shoots him to death. And the round of grasping, joyless love goes on. Thoroughly depraved, Lulu even becomes involved with her stepson and a lesbian named Countess Geschwitz. Eventually she destroys both of them...