Un Pont entre deux rives (1999) **

Directed by Gerard Depardieu and Frederic Auburtin. With Gerard Depardieu, Carole Bouquet and Charles Berling. This must be the zillionth French movie about adultery. This time, a wife (Bouquet) cheats on her husband (Depardieu) with her lover (Berling). It's nicely crafted, often pleasantly low-key, but unforgivably unoriginal. Set in 1961, it tries to make some obscure comments about class differences which only make it look like one of those dated, pre-New Wave melodramas, so derided by the Cahiers du Cinema crowd.