The Proprietor

Updated June 26, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Merchant makes no attempt to hide the fact that he adores Moreau, nearly canonizing her in The Proprietor. And only Moreau could pull off this saccharine role, leaving viewers to assume there's another side to this heavenly creature. When French expatriate novelist Adrienne Mark (Moreau) learns that the apartment she grew up in is for sale, she returns to Paris to buy it. After living in New York for 30 years, she finds that Parisians are still obsessed with her, and her ex-husband, from whom she has been divorced for decades, has patiently waited for her return, hoping for a passionate reunion. Though she seems to live a carefree life, Mark is haunted by nightmares about the death of her mother, who was killed by Nazis. Some satirical attempts to parody Hollywood create an unevenness that throws the film off course.