本片虽被认为是一部政治片,但在商业上却非常成功,导演手法完美,娴熟,不靠噱头吸引观众,因为它具有扣人心弦的活力,充满正义感。本片还被认为“是当代西方政治电影的典范作品,是以惊险片,侦探片和闹剧片和形式表现了严肃的政治内容”。因为曾被纽约影评家评为1967年度最佳影片。加夫拉斯为最佳导演。
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (aka Venus de Palma) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
Charles and Lucie, an old and poor couple, inherits a luxurious house in the South of France.
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three educated and rather gorgeous women live there, and they hire him to tutor a young teenager, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.
A brilliant analysis of 19th century French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, known for his fantastical and mythological subjects, and who remains to these days an influential figure in the birth of modern art.