Religious conflicts are so much easier to stomach when, as in Café au lait (1993), they are played out upon the soft, malleable, yearning, and enveloping body of a passionate and willing woman rather than some more hostile terrain. The scrumptious dish whose physical being is at the center of Café au lait is a biracial Frenchwoman of Christian descent. Open-minded as well as liberally open-legged, this eye-pleasing heroine is a woman who likes to exercise her options, and she maintains two boyfriends--one a Jew, the other a Muslim. When the accommodating Christian comes down with a mild case of pregnancy and refuses to disclose which man of the mattress is the child’s most likely father, religious tolerance in modern-day France is put to the test.