Nicole is a female attorney who is frustrated with the male-dominated world of provincial law. She embezzles money from a law firm and travels to Paris where she disguises herself as a man in hopes it will make a difference in her life and career. Nicole has two lesbian affairs and becomes a pimp for one of the women. She also has an affair with a man who indicates that he doesn't want a serious relationship. Nicole's loneliness leads her to the affairs as she continues the downward spiral into schizophrenia in this depressing psychological drama.
Acting
Zabou Breitman's committed descent into unraveling
Direction
Boisset's unflinching gaze at systemic rot
Director
Yves Boisset
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zabou Breitman also co-wrote the screenplay, drawing from her own observations of France's sexist legal system in the 1980s.
The film bombed commercially and was largely dismissed by critics, later rediscovered as a transgressive curiosity of queer French cinema's messy margins.
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