This is a totally worthless film. If you put together elements of Laclos, with a dash of De Sade and a Roman Catholic marriage, then you just about have it. I have had a copy for years and out of semi-isolation due to Covid-19 I decided to give it a try. The music is terrible, and as the film was made in black and white the Cote d'Azur does not relieve the monotony by giving it colour. Males of a certain type will like it for Elke Sommer and I admit that her Bardot imitation is worth a laugh. I saw it in French and the dialogue is pitiful. My simple request to anyone who has half a brain cell to avoid it. Needless to say the direction is terrible, giving a few cheap thrills of sexual titillation and violence. I hope France has put it in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
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