Brigitte Fossey

Quintet -- Robert Altman's somber science fiction tale that takes place after a nuclear holocaust has thrown the world into another Ice Age.

Quintet is Robert Altman's a somber science fiction tale that takes place after a nuclear holocaust has thrown the world into another Ice Age. A man named Essex (Paul Newman), his pregnant wife Vivia (Brigitte Fossey) and her brother Francha (Tom Hill) are wandering the desolate, frozen landscape when they run across a handful of fellow survivors who pass their time playing a mysterious game called Quintet. No one is able to explain just how it's played, but Grigor (Fernando Rey) appears to act as the referee, and the stakes of the game are unusually high -- after Vivia and Francha lose, they're killed in a mysterious explosion. Essex is not happy with the way they've been dragged into the village's game of death but, as he attempts to seek revenge, he is only drawn deeper into the lethal competition.

A famous Italian filmmaker, haunted by the memories of his first love, returns to his hometown after an absence of 30 years. Upon his return, he reconnects with the community and remembers the highlights and tragedies that shaped his life and inspired him to follow his dream of becoming a filmmaker.

Decadent drifters Jean-Claude (Gérard Depardieu) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere), in an effort to flout bourgeois morality, go on a bizarre crime spree in director Bertrand Blier's provocative cult comedy that features an early appearance by Isabelle Huppert. The two vagabonds wander the French countryside looking for trouble -- and find it when they kidnap a jaded beautician (Miou-Miou) and cross paths with a lusty ex-convict (Jeanne Moreau).