A great film. Wickedly lacerating portrait of France's bourgeoisie, those already there and those striving for it.
Everybody gets cut here: the rich, their servants, bureaucrats, country folk. JM gives a brilliant performance, infusing her character with a sly, knowing cunning...seemingly agreeable, pleasant and appealing to all...but all the while using her sexual appeal to connive her way to riches and a comfortable life. A life, which once achieved, is as unsatisfying to her as it was for the fools she once served.
This film received international attention when it was released in 1964. It deserved it then and today deserves to be remembered as perhaps the first truly great postwar French film.
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