It was a surprise for me to discover Jean-Claude Brisseau as a crime drama maker, he who mostly made dramas, pure dramas and rather low budget ones. Here, the cast proves a bigger envelope in the choices of actors: Michel Piccoli, Tcheky Karyo and a surprising Sylvie Vartan who, before this movie, made mainly crap comedies. Here, she proves that she could match any Hollywood femmes fatales in the line of Barbara Stanwyck or Lizabeth Scott, but due proportion being observed. I like this drama, mainly because of Sylvie Vartan's performance. It was released in movie theaters but still looks like a TV feature and certainly not destined to prime time audiences. Brisseau's trademark in many scenes, erotic, nude sequences.
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