On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference.
Acting
Huppert and Trintignant's glacial chemistry could freeze hell.
Direction
Deville turns Jersey into a pressure cooker of polite hostility.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp you'll need stitches.
Director
Michel Deville
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