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(Les Nuits de la pleine lune). A young designer, Louise (Pascale Ogier), displaced to the suburbs by her boyfriend's job, takes a pied-à-terre in Paris to explore solitude and commitment, youth and its loss, in this comedy of manners based on a proverb, "He who has two women loses his soul. He who has two houses loses his mind." Louise's friend Octave (Fabrice Luchini, a latter-day Trintingnant) is in love with her, but anyone can see he is a poseur in the world of emotions. Like Paris itself, his lure is loneliness. Pascale Ogier, the late daughter of actress Bulle Ogier, had a Gallic face of plasticity and surprise (imagine Fernandel as a great beauty). As the film's center, she gives expression to the conversational maneuverings that unwind an intrigue of inconsequential irony. (JB)