La FIDELITE (2000)

Avec Sophie MARCEAU, Pascal GREGGORY, Guillaume CANET …

Jeune photographe de talent, Clelia est engagée par un magnat canadien de la presse à scandale, Lucien Macroi, afin de redorer l'image du groupe. Ce dernier est entouré par une véritable cour, dominée par Diane, sa maîtresse, et constituée pour une grande part de personnages aux intentions douteuses. En opposition avec ce monde, Clève, un éditeur de trente-cinq ans, honnête et soucieux d'une certaine qualité littéraire, tombe immédiatement amoureux de Clelia, qui accepte de l'épouser. Mais celle-ci rencontre Nemo, un jeune photographe en marge.

Sophie Marceau plays Clelia, an art photographer hired to work for the tabloid branch of a multimedia empire of a Ted Turner-type Mac Roi who just may be her father. Her arty (often out-of-focus) photographs enrage her supervisor (an energetic performance from Edith Scob) but prove successful. Clelia meets and falls in love Cleve (Pascal Gregory), whose family publishing company has just been bought out by Clelia's boss. After his father dies, Cleve dumps his marriage-of-convenience fiancee (Mac Roi's sister) to marry Clelia. There domestic bliss is constantly disrupted by her mother's illness and death, Mac Roi's takeovers, and various family scandals (Cleve's bishop brother runs off with a married woman and touchingly conveys the motivations behind his decision to a bloodthirsty press). In spite of her intense love for Cleve, Clelia finds herself falling for photographer Nemo (Patrick Dempsey look-alike Guillaume Canet), constantly under threat after exposing child brothels and a black market organ trade. Though Clelia never consummates her relationship with Nemo, the emotional infidelity is devastating enough to send Cleve into a tailspin which finds him collaborating with Mac Roi and company whose flashy, muckraking multimedia empire also supports various illegal activities.