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Director: Claude Chabrol
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From Time Out Film Guide
The project on which Chabrol first gave his cynicism full rein and took his mordant playfulness to outrageous lengths. This coarse farce, hardly worth the vitriol poured on its apparent misogyny, always looked more like the director's revenge on the French mass audience, who had consistently ignored his good movies, but would accept anything with Belmondo, and in this case did. Ironic inversions of the star's image, charming ugly women for their 'moral beauty', or 'unmanned' as his schemes rebound, ring pretty hollow.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Chabrol
Producer: André Génoves
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mia Farrow, Laura Antonelli, Daniel Ivernel, Daniel Lecourtois, Dominique Zardi, Henri Attal full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 101 mins
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