The most dangerous love-game ever played
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
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Intimate, grave, classical in form and spare.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20257/10
Now if I was on holiday with my partner enjoying the sunshine, the swimming pool and plenty of sex, I don’t think I’d be very impressed at the arrival of their ex-lover and his teenage daughter. Even more inexplicably, it seems that “Marianne” (Romy Schneider) has actually invited “Harry” (Maurice Ronet) and “Pénélope” (Jane Birkin) to share the villa with the perplexed “Jean-Paul” (Alain Delon). It might be revenge or it might just be lust, but fairly swiftly the nose-out-of-joint “Jean-Paul” is becoming fond of the daughter whilst her father rather openly reminisces about and flirts with “Marianne”. With the sun shining and the booze flowing freely, tensions start to rises as the green eyed monster rears it’s ugly head in an increasingly toxic fashion. It’s a story about the fickleness of human relationships, about the shallowness of beauty and the temporary nature of “love”, and all four here exemplify the evils of temptation compellingly. The writing delivers quite a sparing, but potent, dialogue that conveys the crescendoing emotions enjoyably whilst the photography captures a lot of the beauty of their piscine and their glistening bodies. The tail-end reminded me a little of
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Cast
- Alain DelonJean-Paul
- Romy SchneiderMarianne
- Maurice RonetHarry
- Jane BirkinPenelope
- Paul CrauchetL'inspecteur Lévêque
- Suzie JaspardEmilie
- Maddly BamyLa mulâtre
- Thierry ChabertUn ami
- Steve EckardtFred
- Ruth PriceSinger (uncredited)
Crew
- Jacques DerayDirector
- Jean-Claude CarrièreWriter
- Jacques DerayWriter
- Jean-Jacques TarbèsDirector of Photography
- Michel LegrandOriginal Music Composer
- Paul CayatteEditor
- René PignièresProducer
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