It stars Sam Neil, one of the main characters is a french woman and one major plot is a satellite orbiting earth that gets blown up by the Americans to stop it from doing harm. Saw it ages ago, only trying to remember cos the French chick drives a Rover P5 IIRC.
It’s got to be one of these if Sam Neil is in it…
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Neill,+Sam
Ta Elfkin, an excercise in my laziness thanks to the resources of the IMDB. The film in question was [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101458]Until the end of the world, an interesting film if anyone’s interested.