A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
It's as if the film were a kind of living notebook for what Rohmer was to do later, with greater ease and refinement.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
fresh:
Wryly and delightfully witty.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Rohmer's impossibly light, graceful way of posing profound moral questions hasn't yet wholly coalesced, though this 1966 film does have his soft, slow rhythm.