Adaptation of a French boulevard play, in which a parvenu businessman marries a young lady from a noble family who need his money.There is no love lost between them.
Acting
Rampling's glacial stare could freeze hell.
Writing
Dialogue cuts like a letter opener to the heart.
Director
Étienne Périer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'boulevard play' tradition specialized in exposing bourgeois hypocrisy through witty, devastating social observation — this is pure arsenic-laced cognac.
Rampling filmed this during her European art-house peak, fresh from Under the Sand — she reportedly insisted on minimal makeup to emphasize Isabelle's drained, aristonic hollowness.
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