Claude Chabrol cast Micheline Presle in The Blood of Others (1984), one of the many projects he had accepted against the grain and chosen to handle in the most superficial way as possible. When Micheline asked him if he had any ideas about how she should have played her character, he replied that he didn't. The actress eventually played the role to good reviews, leading the director to tell her with self-irony that she had been much more praised than the film itself.
A TV movie made for the HBO network.
When this movie was finally released on DVD, the cover art featured a still of Jodie Foster not from this movie, but from O Silêncio dos Inocentes (1991) which she made six years later, and was her most famous role.