La truite
La Truite
France • 1982
Director
Synopsis
“Nowadays, homosexuality and heterosexuality mean nothing. You’re sexual or you’re not.” The penultimate film by iconoclastic director Joseph Losey, LA TRUITE (“The Trout”) is a shrewd study of sexuality as currency centered on an upwardly mobile young woman named Frédérique (Isabelle Huppert, in a role originally conceived for Brigitte Bardot in the 1960s) who uses her allure to get ahead as she hops from affair to affair with a succession of partners—including a gay husband and a businessman who whisks her away to Japan. Jean-Pierre Cassel and Jeanne Moreau costar in this stylish and fascinating auteur statement.
Synopsis
“Nowadays, homosexuality and heterosexuality mean nothing. You’re sexual or you’re not.” The penultimate film by iconoclastic director Joseph Losey, LA TRUITE (“The Trout”) is a shrewd study of sexuality as currency centered on an upwardly mobile young woman named Frédérique (Isabelle Huppert, in a role originally conceived for Brigitte Bardot in the 1960s) who uses her allure to get ahead as she hops from affair to affair with a succession of partners—including a gay husband and a businessman who whisks her away to Japan. Jean-Pierre Cassel and Jeanne Moreau costar in this stylish and fascinating auteur statement.
Credits
Crew
DirectorJoseph Losey
WriterJoseph Losey, Monique Lange
CinematographerHenri Alekan
ComposerRichard Hartley
EditorMarie Castro
Cast
Isabelle Huppertas Frédérique
Jean-Pierre Casselas Rambert
Jeanne Moreauas Lou
Daniel Olbrychskias Saint-Genis