Encore (1988)
Directed by Paul Vecchiali

Film Synopsis

In October 1978, Louis works for a large company and is married to Sybèle.  He has a daughter, Anne-Marie, who loves him dearly.  On his daughter's birthday, Louis realises that he can no longer stand his wife.  Unable to agree to a separation, Sybèle falls ill, but one year on Louis has made up his mind to leave her for good.  It is then that he meets two outsiders, Yvan and a girl named Immondice, who offer him a sanctuary where he meets Frantz, a gay man who is too confident of his powers of seduction.  Louis succumbs easily to Frantz's amorous advances and is soon wildly in love, but Frantz, an inveterate seducer, responds to his appeal to be faithful with scorn.  Devastated, Louis attempts suicide, but Yvan saves him just in time.  Having recovered from this experience, Louis is able to rejoice in his sexuality and starts pursuing a series of liaisons with men and women.  Of course he is aware that he is at risk of catching the AIDS virus, but for him the important thing is to live, without fear and constraints.  Eight years after he left his wife, Louis is on his death bed...