Jill Ciment was 17 in 1970 when she got involved with the 47-year-old teacher who would become her husband. Now widowed, she reconsiders the relationship — and its "poisonous" beginnings.

Michel Ciment, a revered French film critic and longtime editor of Positif film magazine, died Monday in Paris at 85. The Cannes and Venice film festivals paid tribute to him after news of his death.