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Jacques Deray

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. It is set in a villa with a pool in August at the Côte d'Azur

French Riviera

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. Alain Delon

Alain Delon

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, Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider

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, Maurice Ronet

Maurice Ronet

Maurice Ronet was a French film actor, director and writer.-Biography:Maurice Ronet was born Maurice Julien Marie Robinet in Nice, Alpes Maritimes, the only child of professional stage actors Émile Robinet and Gilberte Dubreuil. He made his stage debut in 1941, along side his parents, in Sacha...

 and Jane Birkin

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 get emotionally and erotically entangled.

Plot

A couple, Jean-Paul (a writer) and Marianne (a journalist), are having a seemingly lazy and idyllic holiday at a villa on Saint-Tropez heights in Southern France. Harry, an old friend and record producer, arrives for a visit, surprising the couple by bringing his 18 year-old daughter Penelope (of whom they had not heard until now). Jean-Paul is instantly attracted to Penelope, while Marianne and Harry look to be rekindling their old romance.

After several days of slowly intensifying emotions, arguments, and excessive alcohol consumption, and while Marianne and Penelope are asleep, Jean-Paul deliberately drowns an equally drunk Harry in the pool, and then covers up the murder. After the funeral, a detective investigates the so-called accident, leading Marianne to realise that Jean-Paul murdered her former lover.

Marianne does not turn Jean-Paul over to the police but also wants nothing more to do with him, claiming she does not know who he is any more. However, her cold fury reignites his passion for her, which in turn weakens her resolve, and the couple stay at the villa, staring out at the pool.

Cast

• Romy Schneider
  Romy Schneider
  Romy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.-Early life:Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian...
  
   as Marianne Leroy
• Alain Delon
  Alain Delon
  Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot...
  
   as Jean-Paul Leroy
• Maurice Ronet
  Maurice Ronet
  Maurice Ronet was a French film actor, director and writer.-Biography:Maurice Ronet was born Maurice Julien Marie Robinet in Nice, Alpes Maritimes, the only child of professional stage actors Émile Robinet and Gilberte Dubreuil. He made his stage debut in 1941, along side his parents, in Sacha...
  
   as Harry Lannier
• Jane Birkin
  Jane Birkin
  Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English-born actress and singer who lives in France. In recent years she has written her own album, directed a film and become an outspoken proponent of democracy in Burma.- Early life :...
  
   as Penelope Lannier
• Paul Crauchet
  Paul Crauchet
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  as detective Lévêque