‘Un Coeur en Hiver’ (A Heart in Winter)

Once again, French director Claude Sautet succeeds in finding surprisingly supple and involving romantic entanglements in the well-upholstered lives of the bourgeoisie. Gregarious and sure of himself, Maxime (Andre Dussolier), proprietor of a prestigious violin repair shop, has fallen rapturously in love with a beautiful young violinist (Emmanuelle Beart). But she and Maxime’s employee (Daniel Auteuil, pictured), a meticulous, diffident craftsman, are apparently on the same wavelength. An excursion to some of the wilder shores of love and obsession, this 1993 release proves its statement, “feelings can’t be demystified,” with every scene (Cinemax Wednesday at 8 p.m.).