

Young Berthe, deeply moved by a cinema screening of the notoriously sultry Le Dernier Tango à Paris, goes to the address where most of the action takes place, a building overlooking the Bir-Hakeim Bridge metro station. Reality suddenly seems to mimic fiction when she discovers not only an apartment advertised for rent, but also a man prostrate in a corner who seems to be waiting for her. Hoping for the same torrid embrace as in the film, she discovers that he is in fact preoccupied only by the apartment's defects. Attempting to embark on a passionate affair, she learns that the man suffers from libido problems.
Acting
Francis Blanche's tragicomic desperation as impotent landlord
Writing
Single-joke premise stretched to feature length
Director
Raoul André
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1970s French 'sex comedy' boom exploiting loosened censorship, now mostly unwatchable.
Francis Blanche died the following year; this was among his final roles, arguably mercifully.