Love at The Top
– The relationship between a successful businessman and a prostitute is exploited by a cynical novelis..
The relationship between a successful businessman and a prostitute is exploited by a cynical novelist.
13 Mar 1974
French
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
Michel Deville
Christopher Frank (scenario and dialogue), Roger Blondel (based on the novel by)
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Romy Schneider, Jane Birkin
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...