Jérôme is spending a peaceful few days with his friends on the
French Riviera when, one auspicious day, he encounters a strangely alluring
young woman driving a Citroën Méhari. The woman introduces
herself as Simorre and from that fateful moment Jérôme is under
her spell. Drawn into the mysterious woman's world, the young man is
soon on friendly terms with her acquaintances and, as he finds out more about
Simorre, he becomes ever more fascinated by her. Before he realises
it, the hapless Jérôme becomes tightly enmeshed in the cruellest
of traps, one from which there isn't the remotest possibility of escape...
Cast:Richard Berry (Jérôme),
Claire Nebout (Simorre),
Tchéky Karyo (Kino),
Jean Bouise (Jean-François),
Judith Magre (Falconnetti),
Béatrice Camurat (Fabienne),
Peter Hudson (Gordon),
Vanessa Lhoste (Valerie),
Alexandre Mnouchkine (Gustav Stadler),
Jean Lanzi (TV Host),
Caroline Laurence (La femme de l'ami),
Marianne Epin,
Camille Frank,
Sebastien Frank,
Yves Jouffroy,
Louis-Philippe,
Claude Petit,
Didier Raymond,
Michel Valmer,
Philippe Dermagne
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 90 min
Aka:Spiral
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