
16/01/1974
A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth century in rural France. The old man Deroze plays his violin and tries to seduce the maid. His elder daughter Maxime "qui tue les mouches et deguste en cachette des fruits juteux". Underneath her bourgeois facade her senses are not yet put to rest. There is the rest of this upstairs/downstairs family who is visited by a sea captain who learns of a hidden treasure The storyline of this adult fairy tale is less important than the cinematography and the lyric fairy tale atmosphere that surrounds this movie. A little masterpiece still to be rediscovered.

Nicole Chomo
as Clemence

Christian Duroc
as Toine

Pierre Forget
as Mr. Deroze

François Guillaume
as Captain

Catherine Laborde
as Slattern

Marielle Ollivier
as Ida

Marie Hélène Règne
as Maxime

Catherine Rouchon
as

Claudia Coste
as

Jerry Di Giacomo
as

Anne Dolans
as

Michel Blanc
as

Edith Ker
as

Colette Mareuil
as

Nadia Vasil
as

Nadia Verine
as

Gilda Arancio
as
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