A '79 French provocation where power games blur pleasure and control — who's really submitting here?
Monsieur Matthieu forces his young wife Clarisse into various sexual situations of his design.
Acting
Lahaie's ambiguous expressions — complicit, trapped, or calculating? You decide.
Direction
Bernard-Aubert's clinical gaze refuses to let viewers comfortably consume.
Director
Claude Bernard-Aubert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of France's 'porno chic' moment where hardcore crossed into mainstream discourse, often with uncomfortable gender politics.
Lahaie became a rare crossover star who later wrote critically about her own exploitation, making retrospective viewing deeply complicated.
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