L'Année des méduses (1984) Directed by Christopher Frank
Thriller / Drama / Romance
Film Synopsis
As she does every year, Chris is spending her summer holidays in
Saint-Tropez with her mother. Although she is 16, she is no
longer an adolescent. She is aware of her physical beauty and
intends to flaunt it for all it worth. At the same time, she
bears the scars of a previous relationship, with Vic, a friend of her
parents who gave her no support when, having been made pregnant by him,
she had to have an abortion. At the moment, her sole desire is to
seduce a handsome Gigolo named Romain, who is the complete opposite of
Vic, an inveterate Don Juan preying on whatever he can find on the
beaches. But Chris is too well protected to be of interest to
Romain. Rather, he finds her mother, Claude, a more enticing
prospect. When she realises this, Chris is consumed with jealousy
and sets about orchestrating a perverse game of seduction...
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Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.