Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Bernadette Lafont | ... | Marie | |
Georges Géret | ... | Gaston Duvalier (Tonton Duvalier) | |
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Henri Czarniak | ... | Julien (as Henry Czarniak) |
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Claire Maurier | ... | Irène |
Julien Guiomar | ... | Le Duc | |
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Jean Parédès | ... | M. Paul, dit La Tisane |
Pascal Mazzotti | ... | L'abbé Dard | |
Jacques Marin | ... | Félix Lechat | |
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Francis Lax | ... | Emile |
Michel Constantin | ... | André | |
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Jacques Masson | ... | Hippolyte |
Marcel Pérès | ... | Pépé | |
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Micha Bayard | ... | La Goulette (Mélanie Lechat) |
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Claire Olivier | ... | La mère de Marie |
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Renée Duncan | ... | Delphine |
An oppressed and exploited young woman (Marie) begins charging for her sexual favors and completely disrupts the smug patriarchal capitalist society of the village of Tellier. Written by English Showalter <showalte@crab.rutgers.edu>
Some words about the story.Marie and her mother live apart of the village.Marie works for a lesbian farmer who exploits her totally, besides all the men of the village are harassing her.Her mother dies and then she begings charging for her sexual favors: of course all this respectuous men go to church every Sunday and are speaking badly about her.But her revenge will be very hard because she knows a lot of secrets about these men and their family. In this story about hipocrisy in a small village appears a sympathetic man, André, who shows films in the villages of the region and becomes a confident of Marie. Now some words about Bernadette Laffont (1938-2013), this French actress was "the face of the French New Wave "(she has worked with Truffaut,Chabrol, Jean Eustache), a very good actress. His friend André is interpreted by a very famous French actor Michel Constantin who has always had a great sense of humour.