Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of their neuroses.
Acting
Patrick Dewaere's desperate eye-twitch should be studied.
Direction
De Broca turns a manor into a pressure cooker of awkward.
Director
Philippe de Broca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dewaere was France's wounded golden boy of cinema; this satirizes the very self-help culture he reportedly struggled with personally.
De Broca shot the country house scenes at his own family estate, essentially turning his childhood home into a chaos simulator.
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