Desc: Hôtel des Amériques: Directed by André Téchiné. With Catherine Deneuve, Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot, Sabine Haudepin. Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect.