Word: vost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry heard the sentence impassively, but flinched when the judge added that he would be expelled from the Légion d'Honneur; ex-Lieut. Alain Bougrenet de la Tocnaye was equally impassive as he stood at attention in his army uniform; Jacques Prévost, whose life had not even been demanded by the prosecution, heard the death sentence with a slight smile. Sentences for the six other defendants ranged from three years to life imprisonment...
Sick and sixteen, the heroine is the daughter of a U.S. officer who puts her up at a fancy French academy while he assiduously golfs to keep himself in SHAPE. Flirty and thirty, the hero is a sculptor who sponges off a rich woman (Françoise Prévost)-and takes her money too. One day the girl jumps the wall that divides her school from his house, and introduces herself. She needs a man, she world-wearily explains to him. "from time to time." He needs a change of sheets to help him sleep better-he has nightmares...
...Help me!" she begs the American. He smiles sadly. "You can't fight the Organization." But she has to try. She visits the young man's mistress (Françoise Prévost), visits the mistress of a man who may have been murdered by the Organization, visits a sinister intellectual who murmurs something prophetic about "une fatalité biologique." No clues from any of them. No real reason to believe that the young man is in danger. But suddenly one morning he is dead...
...marry a nameless woman whom he shares with a nameless lover? Befuddled, the bachelor turns for advice to a woman of the world (Françoise Prėvost), intelligent and dependably unemotional. Yet when he shows her a picture of the girl the woman suddenly turns pale and hurries away. Why? Obviously, the woman is the other dove in the nest. Not so obviously, she is also in love with the hero. Any other questions? The film answers them in passably explicit detail and with a sick romantic energy that Honoré de Balzac, who wrote the tale...