Directed by:
Michel DevilleScreenplay:
Nina CompanéezCinematography:
Claude LecomteCast:
Maurice Ronet, Françoise Fabian, Brigitte Fossey, Isabelle de Funès, Anne Wiazemsky, André Oumansky, Jacques Weber, Jean Vilar, Maurice Barrier (more)Plots(1)
This well-made period melodrama, set in late 19th-century France, highlights the worldly, flirtatious fashion of the day and the demands of genuine piety on the one hand and debauchery on the other. Aurore (Francoise Fabian) is a high-minded but flirtatious woman of society who charmingly refuses the attentions of one man, claiming she would have had to completely lost heart to marry such an old miser as he. She falls for completely debauched charmer Raphael (Maurice Ronet) and hopes at first to win him to a life of virtue. Unsuccessful in this and deeply obsessed with him, she then simply hopes to win him and, in the attempt, enters further and further into his depraved world. (official distributor synopsis)
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Maurice Ronet
France
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Purple Noon (1960)
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The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
Françoise Fabian
Algeria
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Brigitte Fossey
France
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Isabelle de Funès
France
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Kiss Me Kill Me (1973)
Anne Wiazemsky
West Germany
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André Oumansky
France
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Jacques Weber
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Jean Vilar
France
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Maurice Barrier
France
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Yves Lefebvre
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Jean-Pierre Bernard
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Hélène Arié
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Françoise Burgi
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Georges Claisse
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Philippe Moreau
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Monique Vita
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Bernard Garnier
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Michèle Ernou
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Jacqueline Fontaine
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