A writer (Maurice Ronet) is so obsessed with the female sex that it becomes a distraction from his work. So his publisher (Jean Pierre Marielle) hires a secretary (Brigitte Bardot), who will do double duty as secretary and sex object. Directed by Jean Aurel, the idea of a French sex comedy with Bardot and Ronet sounds
delicieux, oui? A resounding
non! Bardot has very little to do here except tease and pout and show her delectable bottom and Ronet, normally an attractive screen presence, plays a thoroughly irredeemable jerk. Scads of lovelies (Anny Duperey, Christina Holme and Tanya Lopert among them) throw themselves at him despite his inability to commit and his manipulation of them and the bulk of the film has Ronet reminiscing about his past conquests while Bardot gets turned on. There's even a train thru a tunnel sequence that director Jean Aurel lifts from Hitchcock's
NORTH BY NORTHWEST. The film's idea of funny is a mad chase through the length of a Paris to Rome train, bumping into people and knocking things over. If that's your idea of hilarious, you may find it amusing. I also found its attitudes toward women positively medieval.
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