La Captive is a 2000 drama film
directed by Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman

Chantal Anne Akerman is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School. Akerman's best-known film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , exemplifies a dedication to the ellipses of conventional narrative cinema.-Early life:Akerman was born to...

. It features Olivia Bonamy

Olivia Bonamy

Olivia Bonamy is a French actress best known for her appearances in the films Jefferson in Paris, Jacques Audiard's Read my lips, the thriller Ils and Le ciel, les oiseaux et ta mère.-Biography:...

, Sylvie Testud

Sylvie Testud

Sylvie Testud is a French actress, writer and director. Her film career began in 1991. She was later highly acclaimed, and has twice won César Awards.-Biography:...

 and Stanislas Merhar

Stanislas Merhar

Stanislas Merhar is a French actor.He was born in Paris in a family of immigrants from Slovenia. He works in cinema, television and theatre.- Filmography :Stanislas Merhar is a French actor....

. This French language film is loosely based on Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu...

's novel La Prisonnière

La Prisonnière

La Prisonnière is* a novel by Marcel Proust, fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time.* an autobiography by Malika Oufkir, originally published in French, and translated into English as Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail....

. It the story of a wealthy man, Simon (Merhar), who holds his romantic interest Ariane (Testud) captive in a Paris apartment. His intent is to confirm his suspicions of her leading a lesbian

Lesbian

Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

double life.