The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line

1976 · 100 min · FR · 5.4 (41 votes)
Dir. Georges Lautner · Starring Pierre Richard, Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Renée Saint-Cyr, Gérard Jugnot, Sabine Azéma · Music Philippe Sarde
Comedy

An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.

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This film feels like a sleazy, cynical 70s satire. It’s a darkly comedic look at the compromises people make for money, wrapped in an uncomfortable, yet compelling, narrative about exploitation and naive ambition.

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