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
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Pierre-François Le Clainche
Emmanuelle Seigner
Odile
Richard Bohringer
Jean-Jean
Chantal Banlier
Loulou
Bernard Verley
Ma tante
Mathilde Seigner
Tuttut
Nathalie Cardone
Brigitte
Catherine Mongodin
Wagon
Jeanne Savary
Cisca
Nadia Barentin
Gaby
Noëlla Dussart
Chipper
Christine Pascal
Chantal
Maïté Nahyr
Mado
Sabine Tingry
Girl Miami-Follies
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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