This film was called ' Torment ' in the UK and given an X certificate. This site might like to know that fact, easily found on the BBFC site when you type in the French title. Trivia like this can be helpful.
Aptly called in the UK as it is torment to watch. It is directed by Robert Hossein and like the rest of his participation in films that I have seen during my life it is sensationalist and deeply depressing. ' Torment ' is especially bad. The set is a travesty of poverty versus luxury, and Michele Morgan trying to be American and using the English language is terrible. Her acting is threadbare and that goes for the wooden acting of Hossein himself. The only film he was good in was made by Roger Vadim and he had Brigitte Bardot to bring him to life. Others may have other opinions. The plot is trite and tawdry and centres around a bad marriage and a poor girl who lives opposite their rich house who becomes their maid. The only scene that was both risible and unintentionally funny was seeing the maid trample all over Morgan's naked back with her feet. Decadence follows as it always does in such films. I saw no reason for this except to wake up the audience who could well have fallen asleep during this pitiful exercise in cinema.
