Philippe Sarde

On guard: It takes the cavalier Lagardr̈e sixteen years to avenge his friend the Duke of Nevers, who was assassinated by the infamous Gonzag, who would later become the king of Paris finance in the days of the Regency. Five day lover: Claire, a young mother married to Georges, but also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend Madeleine, a wealthy fashion designer. But the meetings at Antoine's apartment, five...

In a luxury Paris hotel, two detectives are working on the vexing case of an assassinated prince. In a nearby room, boxing trainer Jim Fox Warner is getting his young protege ready for a fight. But Jim owes big money to the mob, as well as to the Chenals, a bickering husband, and wife. In Godard's fractured, poetic style, the tension ratchets up between these groups until they reach a bloody breaking point.