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Still Life

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telephone call. He arranges to meet his mistress Geneviève the next morning.

At Geneviève's apartment, Robert says he must end their relationship but invites her to join them for a weekend retreat at La Colinière. Christine also invites her niece, Jackie. Later. Octave induces Robert to invite André to the estate as well. They joke that André and Geneviève will begin a relationship, thereby solving everyone's problems. At the estate, Schumacher is policing the grounds and trying to eliminate rabbits. Marceau, a poacher, sneaks onto the estate to retrieve a rabbit caught in a snare. Before Marceau can escape, Schumacher catches him and begins to escort him from the property when Robert demands to know what is happening. Marceau explains that he can catch rabbits and Robert hires him as a servant. Once inside the house, Marceau flirts with Lisette. The next morning the assembled guests go on a hunt led by Schumacher. On the way back to La Colinière's castle, Robert tells Geneviève that he no longer loves her. Geneviève unwillingly accepts but demands a kiss from Robert as a farewell, something that Christine accidentally sees while looking through a monocular. Because of this, later when Geneviève wants to pack up and leave Christine confronts her but