Love at the Top
1974 · Movie · 105 min. · France
A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn't known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer develops a plan to control and manipulate Nicholas' life. First of all, he procures him to Roberte, a professor of philosophy's frustrated and bored wife...
Direction Michel Deville
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Romy Schneider · Jane Birkin · Henri Garcin · Georges Beller · Georges Wilson · Estella Blain · Dominique Constanza · Mary Marquet · Betty Berr · Florinda Bolkan · Jean-François Balmer · Michel Vitold · Gisèle Casadesus
Screenplay Christopher Frank · Roger Blondel
Cinematography Claude Lecomte
Original title Le mouton enragé
6.2
145 votes (FilmAffinity)
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