Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions — including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie — to this episodic drama, which serves as a thinly-veiled portrait of France’s…

Cannes Film Festival 1973

Mathieu is a mild-mannered man engaged to a woman whose father is involved in running a house of prostitution. When the father dies, Mathieu inherits the bordello and is unprepared…