A soul-(and-body)-laid-bare affair, shot in the sandpaper-grained black-and-white of a bottom-drawer nudie circa 1964, about an actress whose professional repertoire ranges from Racine to a carnival strip show with a stuffed monkey, and whose private repertoire ranges from mad love to madder love. It's unmistakably a virtuoso role, to which Myriam Mézières brings full dedication and sloppily overflowing emotion. Director Alain Tanner, a cool customer from Switzerland, observes her carryings-on through placid, detached frames that somehow express a lack of responsibility for (if not also interest in) whatever is happening inside them. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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