

An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.
Acting
Marielle's sweaty desperation is physically uncomfortable to watch.
Direction
Miller finds poetry in this man's pathetic downward spiral.

Director
Claude Miller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Emmanuelle Seigner was 27 playing opposite 58-year-old Marielle; she married Roman Polanski the same year.
Miller called this his 'anti-romance'—a deliberate poison pill to the French cinema tradition of older men getting the girl.
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