Gilles de Rais
In 1998, he portrayed Henry, Duc d'Anjou in "Elizabeth". In 1999, he portrayed Gilles de Rais in Luc Besson's "." Other notable roles during this period of his career include the violent film "Dobermann" (1997), the genre-bending "Le Pacte des Loups" (2001), and the highly controversial "Irréversible" (2002), where he appears fully nude (with Monica Bellucci, after they married).