Sunday 8 May 2011

Le mouton enragé (1974)


Director: 

Michel Deville

Writers: 

Christopher Frank (scenario and dialogue), Roger Blondel (novel)

Stars:

 Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Romy Schneider
A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn't known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer develops a plan to control and manipulate Nicholas' life. First of all, he procures him to Roberte, a professor of philosophy's frustrated and bored wife... 

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