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A Nightcap to Remember
French Institute Screens Crimer Nightcap
Jacques Dutronc
“Nightcap” is a treat, a delicious blend of perversity, playfulness and deadly passion concealed beneath the tranquil, moneyed surface of the Swiss bougeoisie.
-Variety
We will attempt to lay out all the devilish twists and turns…
1. Mika is the boss of her late father’s Swiss chocolate company.
2. Mika remarries Andre Polonski, a concert pianist to whom she was briefly married 18 years earlier.
3. In the interium, Andre married Lisbeth and had a son, Guillaume who shows no interest in his father’s calling. (very important to remember).
4. Mika and Andre’s re-marriage resuscitates an old story: Guillaume, on the night of his birth, was almost exchanged for another baby- due to a hospital mix-up(!?!).
5. That other baby, Jeanne, has since grown into talented 18-year-old piano student. (very important to remember).
6. Jeanne, over hears the old story and contacts Andre for an impulsive visit. They quickly bond over their love of music, but Jeanne isn’t aware that Mika is also in the house listening.
7. Mika introduces herself and invites her for a drink.
While Mika shows Jeanne the house and pictures of the late Lisbeth, flags are flying everywhere inside her. How come she is musically talented and Guillaume isn’t? Why does she look more like Lisbeth than her apparent mom? Why did Mika deliberately spill, in her presence, a thermos full of a “nightcap” of hot chocolate?
After Jeanne tells her b.f. of the events, he tests some remains of the hot chocolate that’s on Jeanne’s scarf. He reports that it contained a mild sleeping drug often used in rape cases.
See how it ends here