Something of a departure for Truffaut, a straight and rather broad comedy which may have been his stab at screwball - certainly the bookish sociologist André Dussolier could be the Cary Grant character in Bringing Up Baby - Bernadette Lafont is just as dangerous and destructive as Katherine Hepburn. Whilst constantly lying to him, Lafont relates her story of multiple affairs - with Charles Denner, Claude Brasseur, Guy Marchand and Philippe Léotard.
Memorable moments are racing car record to love-making, kid who won't show footage as it isn't yet edited, wise secretary Anne Kreis who knows exactly what's going on, husband being run over.
Does it work? It ends up being quite a good thriller with a twisty ending, but generally it's rather exhausting. And very French. It was based on the novel 'Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me' and Truffaut directed it for Columbia who owned the rights.
Pierre-William Glenn photographed it.
It wasn't particularly successful at the box office.
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