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Cast

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Bruce Dern ... William Brandels
Stéphane Audran ... Claire Brandels
Sydne Rome ... Nathalie

Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Jacques Lavolet, l'éditeur

Ann-Margret ... Charlie Minerva
Maria Schell ... Gretel
Francis Perrin ... Robert Sartre
Mauro Parenti

Sybil Danning ... La secrétaire / Secretary
Yvonne Gaudeau ... La mère de Claire / Claire's mother
Charles Aznavour ... Dr. Lartigue
Curd Jürgens ... Le bijoutier / Jeweller
Tomas Milian ... Le détective / Detective
Roland Travers ... Le premier invité (as R. Travers)
Jean Lanier ... Le second invité (as J. Lanier)
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Also Known As:
Der Dreh (West Germany) (working title)
Die verrückten Reichen (West Germany)
Pazzi borghesi (Italy)
The Twist (USA)
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107 min
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folie tout court, 28 November 2007
Author: dbdumonteil

That was Chabrol's seventies nadir by such a wide margin it's difficult to find which would be the second :"nada" perhaps,and nevertheless ,that film seems to tell a story,and the director seemed still to know where he was going.

It did not seem that way after "les folies bourgeoises" a disastrous collaboration between Chabrol's usual suspects (Audran,Cassel),German earnest thespian Schell (who was never as bad as here,as an user aptly points out ,as the swiss maid ) and American stars (Bruce Dern who walks across a theater completely naked :it's only a fantasy ,we are told,but Luis Bunuel,Claude Chabrol is definitely not.

After this disaster,which got unanimous thumbs down in his native country,Chabrol occasionally came up with good films ("Alice Ou la dernière fugue" "L enfer" )but he was never to recapture the magic of the 1968-1973 productions.

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