Word: piccoli
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...cast fits perfectly. Jane Fonda embodies the best of two movie cultures. She's American perkiness and French sensuality. McEnery is what he should be -- a teddy bear, solid, but not quite sure of himself. Tina Marquad, the jeune fille he might marry, is just cheeky enough. Michel Piccoli as the husband is intractable and believable...
...Over, which transposes a novel by Emile Zola (La Curée) into the present Paris scene, he gives them little else. Game tells the gamy tale of a hot young wife who commits incest with the hot young stepson (Peter McEnery) of her cold old husband (Michel Piccoli), and Vadim finds opportunities innumerable to show the world what a lucky man he is. Mrs. Vadim is exhibited stark naked in a bed of lust and rising from a garden pool like the White Rock girl. She also appears topless in a bathroom and bottomless under a hair dryer...
Married. Juliette Greco, 39, French actress (The Roots of Heaven) and far-out chanteuse; and Michel Piccoli, 40, new-wave leading man to Jeanne Moreau and Jane Fonda; both for the second time, in Verderonne, France...
...talent found outside the Montand family, I was particularly impressed by Michel Piccoli, whose portrait of the unhappy clerk is a small masterpiece. Perspiring as freely as he fantasizes, nervously smoothing his sparse, slicked-down hair, and curling his lips into a tobacco-stained smile, Piccoli is simultaneously poignant, and repulsive. Charles Denner, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Claude Mann never fail to be compelling as a cynically belligerent smark aleck, Miss Signoret's languidly egotistical lover, and a charming but distant policeman, respectively...
Here's the action: maid Celestine (Moreau) arrives in Normandy from Paris, to work at a manor. Immediately begins a tableau of lives ruled and twisted by the sexual impulse. The lady of the manor is conspicuously frigid, her husband (brilliantly acted by Michel Piccoli) comically virile. "Watch out for that guv." Celestine is warned, "with him: one shot--POW!--a baby...