Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
Acting
Patricia Gozzi's fragile, feral debut at 15
Cinematography
Brittany coast as character—beautiful and imprisoning
Direction
Guillermin builds dread from silence and glances
Director
John Guillermin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Patricia Gozzi made only four films before retiring from acting at 19, making her intense debut here even more haunting.
The film was butchered by distributors—original cut ran 20 minutes longer and reportedly made the father-daughter relationship even more unsettling.
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