Café au lait (1993)

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.