106 minute running time … filmed around Lake Annecy which is absolutely gorgeous… the movie is about as French as you can get, you know: temptation, romance, passion, promiscuity, desire, seduction, sex ... handsome older guy (Jerome) has a beautiful novelist friend (Aurora) who is lodging at a house where two teenage girls are spending the summer, one of whom (Claire) is stunning, the other girl is just sort of goofy. Everybody is rich and good looking. Jerome is there for three weeks to sell the old family home.

In the end Jerome concocts this whole idea in his mind that by touching Claire’s knee he has made himself a moral man and is ready for marriage. It’s sort of funny, I can’t explain it well … you’d have to see it to understand it. I enjoyed the movie, it gets a yellow rating.

Sean Baker is the only guest to the Criterion Closet who picked this movie specifically (though many have picked the Rohmer box set).