I quite enjoyed this film and it stayed with me for a few days of pondering thought as well. Seasoned actress Brigitte Roüan directs herself as a middle-aged woman swept up in a romantic adulterous affair with a much younger man. Her cinematic efforts to capture the deeply imbedded feeling of aching lovesickness succeeds on many levels. It opens with an image of a cat in heat and the film seems desperate to transfer the feeling of sexual awakening, self-love and buried desire in her character of Diane. The parallel storyline is that of her husband, aware of her affair, and keeping busy as a lawyer preparing to defend a woman who killed her husband... for his extensive affair. This hint of corollary adequately distracts from the growing crisis of Diane's breakdown when dumped by her hunky beau. A slightly obvious, but wonderful, ending convince us of the film's sincerity and let us dismiss the slight dragging of the last 1/3 of the film to that point. It reminded me of Cédric Kahn's L'Ennui (which I don't know why we haven't reviewed) Very enjoyable. out of        

Gary W. Tooze