Director Philippe Venault chronicles the seething betrayals and stormy affairs of a northern French family in the psychological drama La Part de l'ombre (2000). Niels Arestrup stars as Charles Oberlé, the troubled patriarch of a family plagued by intrigues and dangerous passions. When Charles’s father-in-law unexpectedly commits suicide, it throws his wife, Clarisse (Lara Guirao), and sister-in-law, Marie (Marie Vernalde), into a flurry of confusion. As the sisters grow cold toward one another, sexual tension develops between Charles and the sumptuous Marie. The trim French actress charms the cheating husband in one especially notable, candle-lit scene.