| Rialto Pictures | Release Date: August 1, 1970 |
Starring:
Alain Delon, Jane Birkin, Maddly Bamy, Maurice Ronet, Paul Crauchet, Romy Schneider, Ruth Price, Steve Eckardt, Suzie Jaspard, Thierry Chabert
Summary:
Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) indulge in their passion for each other while borrowing a friend's luxurious villa in the south of France. When the friend (Maurice Ronet) and his daughter (Jane Birkin) arrive unexpectedly, rivalries and insecurities surface and events take a sinister turn.
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The film is never just some glassy exercise in the idly loaded’s languorous cruelty, though. In each magnetic performance (especially Schneider’s), in the sparse but piquant lines from the script co-written with the great, recently departed screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (working from an Alain Page story), and in Deray’s attention to emotional humidity, lies something resolutely curious about human frailty in relationships.
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