A man confesses to a crime he didn't commit—and accidentally steals the victim's heart instead.
Yesterday night, Lazare Chantoiseau painted the town red. This morning he wakes up with a very unsettling idea in mind: he is sure to have stolen and raped a strange woman in the Luxembourg Gardens, so he decides to give himself up. On that occasion he gets to know his victim, Hortense, as well as her husband, an astronomer. Lazare realizes he is innocent, which does not prevent from becoming... Hortense's lover!
Acting
Pierre Larquey's astronomer husband—befuddled, betrayed, brilliant.
Writing
Premise so wrong it's right: confessing to rape you didn't commit.
Director
Maurice Gleize
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maurice Gleize directed over 30 films but remains virtually unknown outside French archive circles—this is his most surviving complete work.
The title references the 1882 astronomical transit of Venus, a rare planetary alignment—fitting for a film about cosmic accidents and misaligned desires.
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