Louis Malle's nostalgic comedy of adolescence, a favorite French genre. The highly touted "tastefulness" of the climactic incest scene isn't really such a triumph; it would take something more than "tastefulness" to make us believe that the actor and actress, who bear no resemblance to one another, are engaged in anything more verboten than a young-man-older-woman affair. (There is, without any effort, a much more unwholesome scent of incest around Roger Vadim's segment of Spirits of the Dead, with Jane and Peter Fonda, or around the Frank and Nancy Sinatra duet, "Something Stupid.") Malle is generally content with mild, mischievous adventures -- a pederastic priest, a teenager's first trip to a brothel -- and it would be easy to give up on the movie before long. However, its sharpest section comes at the end, with some nice detailing of the slothful, sensuous life at a posh health spa. Lea Massari, Benoit Ferreux, Daniel Gelin. (1971) — Duncan Shepherd
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