Pierre Granier -Defferre was once a heir to a long tradition ,the one the highbrows call "cinema de papa" , an unfair pejorative name .His apex was probably "une étrange affaire" where Nathalie Baye was the wife of a man becoming slowly by inexorably ,his boss's slave .
Thus Nathalie Baye was featured in Granier-Defferre 's towering achievement ...and in his worst work .It's hard to tell ,but this "voice " is a big bore , recalling the NV of the early sixties , with privileged people feeling sorry for themselves.Because he's heard a voice in a restaurant where he enjoys a good meal in Rome with his lover , a man recalls a former woman he was in love with : one is told (how original!) his story by flashbacks .Nathalie Baye has nothing to do but listening to this confession,getting jealous along the way .
A ludicrous scene in the ladies 'room gives this bomb the coup de grâce .
