In Schlöndorff’s elegant adaptation—shot by master cinematographer Sven Nykvist—of portions of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, 19th-century Paris is Jeremy Irons’ town and playground, but his fixation on woman of easy virtue Ornella Muti will send his social stock plummeting. Stealing each of his scenes is Delon, as a homosexual baron who lives by his own standards. With Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault, and Jean-François Balmer.

In French with English subtitles