An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film.
Acting
Miou-Miou's simmering restlessness—she's luminous and unreachable.
Cinematography
Misty Loire Valley horse country, all longing and wet grass.
Director
Christopher Frank
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Miou-Miou famously hated this film, calling it 'a beautiful corpse'—she was nominated for a César anyway.
Christopher Frank adapted his own novel, part of a wave of 1980s French cinema examining bourgeois malaise through women's restlessness.
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