Olivier, a young man, falls in love with Marion Renoir, theatre and screen star, to the despair of his fiancée Antonia. The latter goes to find the actress and asks her to invent a ploy to help her win back her lover's heart. The actress gets caught up in the game and ventures into an intrigue where simulation and sincerity are dangerously confused.
Acting
Danielle Darrieux at 58, still the most captivating woman in any room.
Costume
Marion's star wardrobe versus Antonia's bourgeois beige—visual storytelling.
Direction
Delouche blurs stage and screen until you can't tell who's performing.
Director
Dominique Delouche
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Danielle Darrieux was Delouche's frequent muse; this was their fourth collaboration, made when she was already a 40-year screen veteran.
The film slyly comments on France's obsession with 'la star' versus the emerging 1970s feminist question: why are women still competing for men?
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