Acting
Richard Berry's sweaty desperation is almost too real.
Direction
Stora captures that specific French talent for elegant self-destruction.
Writing
Dialogue that makes you wince in recognition.
Director
Bernard Stora
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 1980s French 'cinéma du look' adjacent wave, though Stora was more interested in bourgeois anxiety than visual spectacle.
Richard Berry and Brigitte Fossey had previously starred together in 'Je vous aime' (1980), making their chemistry here uncomfortably loaded with history.
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