The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
Acting
Deneuve does more with silences than most do with monologues.
Direction
Cavalier's clinical eye makes intimacy feel like anthropology.
Costume
Every outfit telegraphs exactly where Lucile stands.
Director
Alain Cavalier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during May '68, the film's critique of bourgeois comfort felt quietly radical amid actual revolution.
Michel Piccoli and Deneuve had already played lovers in Belle de Jour; here their chemistry curdles into something transactional.
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