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French erotic comedy, dark satire, 70s surrealism, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Brigitte Fossey.

Blier uses the narrative as a metaphor for the impossibility of escaping societal expectations. Even in the farthest corners of the countryside, the "sexual war" follows the protagonists.