Details

Release year: 2000

Storyline

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

Top credits

Directors

Benoît Jacquot

Writers

Cast

Daniel Auteuil — Marquis de Sade
Marianne Denicourt — Sensible
Jeanne Balibar — Madame Santero
Grégoire Colin — Fournier

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Did you know

• In her book 'Dire vrai', Isild Le Besco talked about her nude scene in this movie when she was 17. "Benoît [Jacquot] was obsessed with seeing me naked, lying down, facing the camera. I didn't want it and had announced it from the start. He swore to me that we would shoot with a small crew and that we wouldn't see anything on camera. I felt indebted: I had the feeling that refusing would be a betrayal, while he had trusted me from the start. I gave in. I was simply there to serve his film, after all. My perception of limits was blurred. I was becoming his artistic object, an extension of him. The weekend before the shooting of this scene, Benoît gave me his credit card. He specified that I was free to buy whatever I wanted with it. A credit card against my teenage body and, above all, the surpassing of my limits," she wrote.

• In a scene, Daniel Auteuil introduces his fingers into the vagina of the character of Isild Le Besco, doubled by a pornographic actress. Benoît Jacquot was insisting that they film the real penetration, so he decided, with Auteuil and the producer Patrick Godeau, to bring in a porn actor and actress to use as body double. After reflection, Auteuil said not to stick to it - it is therefore his fingers which penetrates the vagina of Isild Le Besco's double.