An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
Acting
Marie Trintignant's feral, wordless silk communion scenes
Costume
The fabric IS the character; every rustle is erotic punctuation
Direction
Marciano's clinical gaze that refuses to look away
Director
Yvon Marciano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the rare 90s French films centering female psychosexual pathology without male redemption arc. Marie Trintignant reportedly researched actual case studies of object fetishism in asylums.
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