A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth century in rural France. The old man Deroze plays his violin and tries to seduce the maid. His elder daughter Maxime "qui tue les mouches et deguste en cachette des fruits juteux". Underneath her bourgeois facade her senses are not yet put to rest. There is the rest of this upstairs/downstairs family who is visited by a sea captain who learns of a hidden treasure The storyline of this adult fairy tale is less important than the cinematography and the lyric fairy tale atmosphere that surrounds this movie. A little masterpiece still to be rediscovered.
Nicole Chomo
as Clemence
Christian Duroc
as Toine
Pierre Forget
as Mr. Deroze
François Guillaume
as Captain
Catherine Laborde
as Slattern
Marielle Ollivier
as Ida
Marie Hélène Règne
as Maxime
Catherine Rouchon
as
Claudia Coste
as
Jerry Di Giacomo
as
Anne Dolans
as
Michel Blanc
as
