Veteran French New Wave director Eric Rohmer explores new limits of formal experimentation through the use of digital video in this adaptation of Grace Elliott’s memoirs. Lucy Russell stars as the Scottish aristocrat who engages in a series of liaisons dangereuses amidst the rising tide of the French Revolution. Rohmer commissioned a series of perspective paintings based on eighteenth-century engravings and, from them, created vivid tableaux spaces in which his actors perform. The result is a virtual Paris which, despite its obvious artificiality, proves a telling reflection of the central character’s conflicted relationship to the world around her.