Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn’t know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had fallen in love a year earlier.

Credits

Jacques RivetteDirector

Emmanuelle BéartMarie

Jerzy RadziwiłowiczJulien Müller

Anne BrochetMadame X

Bettina KeeAdrienne