Valérie Jouve makes genre pictures for the end of the century peopled by a French populace which is decidedly heterogeneous. A crossing guard calling out to her charges, a modern-day street cruiser, a tenement resident all ape the stylized poses of renaissance oil portraits. Jouve has chosen her favorite film for its gray-blue tonality which, she says, sits nicely between color and black and white photography, a stylistic cusp on which she chooses happily to perch.