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Jacqueline Bisset
Julie Baker
Valentina Cortese
Séverine
Dani
Liliane, the Trainee Script Girl
Alexandra Stewart
Stacey
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Alexandre
Jean Champion
Bertrand, the Producer
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Alphonse
François Truffaut
Ferrand, the Director
Niké Arrighi
Odile, the Makeup Artist
Nathalie Baye
Joelle, the Script Girl
Maurice Seveno
TV Reporter
David Markham
Doctor Michael Nelson
Bernard Ménez
Bernard, the Property Master
Gaston Joly
Lajoie, the Location Manager
Zénaïde Rossi
Madame Lajoie
Xavier Saint-Macary
Christian
Marc Boyle
English Stuntman
Walter Bal
Walter, the Camera Operator
Jean-François Stévenin
Jean-François, the Assistant Director
Pierre Zucca
Pierrot, the Still Photographer
Martine Barraqué
Martine, the Editor (uncredited)
Marcel Berbert
French Insurer (uncredited)
Yann Dedet
Yann, the Editor (uncredited)
Georges Delerue
Georges, the Composer (narration) (uncredited)
Graham Greene
English Insurer (uncredited)
Ernest Menzer
Producer of Erotic Films (uncredited)
Claude Miller
Hotel Client (uncredited)
Jean Panisse
Bit Part (uncredited)
Marie Poitevin
Woman (uncredited)
Christophe Vesque
Child with the Cane in the Dream Sequence (uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sat May 27 2023

It's quite hard to succinctly review this Truffaut comedy - there is just so much going on. Essentially, Jacqueline Bisset ("Julie") is brought to Nice to star in a movie about a British woman who is married to a Frenchman. She comes to meet his family and promptly falls in love with her husband's father and so leaves him to shack up with his dad. It turns out, as the production progresses that the producer "Bertrand" (Jean Champion) and the director "Ferrand" (Truffaut himself) have to deal with an whole gamut of issues as the cast - all assembled in a small hotel - come with more baggage than...