Looking for the name of an obscure spanish or french film shown on ifc where a very handsome young man retells some of his love affairs to an older countess* type of woman…. in the movie he participates in a duel, gets shot… recovers… pursues a stubborn spanish beauty, their child dies in the desert, she loses her mind with grief…. What is the name of this movie!!!!
Almost all of the things you describe happen in a classic of 19th century French literature called the Charterhouse of Parme by Stendhal. Maybe it’s an adaptation of the book.
The most famous one was made in 1948 :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040223/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2