Le Sourire

Directed by Claude Miller

Produced by Film Par Film, Les Films de la Boissière

A darkly comedic meditation on mortality and desire, where an aging man's brush with death drives him to pursue a younger woman in a morally ambiguous dance of seduction.

An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.