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ffers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. Because it’s Love Week at The A.V. Club
, we’re recommending movies about love triangles.
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Un Cœur En Hiver (1992)
It’s difficult to maintain a love triangle when one of the three legs politely declines to participate, preferring to remain a line segment. Set in the rarefied world of violin restoration, Claude Sautet’s magnificently chilly 1992 “romance”
Un Cœur En Hiver (also known as
A Heart In Winter) sets up a fairly conventional scenario, introducing two longtime friends and business partners whose cozy routine gets shaken up when both desire the same woman. Maxime (André Dussollier) is the wheeler and dealer, schmoozing clients with practiced charm; he’s the one who initially becomes involved with Camille (Emmanuelle Béart), an up-and-coming violinist whose instrument has a slightly warped bridge. R