It takes place in a chic milieu, where both the father and the son are in love with the au pair girl (but she sleeps with the dad). The young student is far from the post May 68 clichés and the movie walks a fine line off the beaten path. Philippe Lemaire and Emmanuelle Riva are ideally cast as the bourgeois parents who urge their offspring to attend the grandma's Christmas meal.
Directed by Bernard Queysanne
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Cast
Jane Birkin
Linda
Jacques Spiesser
Éric Bouvier
Philippe Lemaire
Mr. Bouvier, the father
Emmanuelle Riva
Mrs. Bouvier, the mother
Georges Vaur
Gendarme
Alain Nobis
Police captain
Guy Dhers
Gendarme
Raoul Curet
Georges, the butler
Caroline Bonhomme
Younger sister
Berenice Angrémy
Little sister
Antoine Angrémy
Luc, young brother
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