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Demy`s second feature has a ravishing Jeanne Moreau, ash-blonde for the occasion and dressed all in white, as a compulsive gambler who doesn`t care what happens to her so long as she has a chip to start her on the roulette tables. Ostensibly the subject is gambling, but the real theme is seduction – with Jackie casting a spell on Jean that turns him every which way – and this is above all a visually seductive film. Shot mainly inside the casinos and on the sunstruck promenades of Nice and Monte Carlo, it is a dazzling symphony in black and white. Moreau`s performance is magnificent, but it`s really Jean Rabier`s camera which turns the whole film into an expression of sheer joy – not only in life and love, but things. A litlle jeweller`s shop becomes a paradise of strange ornamental clocks; a series of mirrors echo the heroine as she runs down a corridor into her lover`s arms; roulette wheels spin to a triumphant musical accompaniment. And over it all hangs an aura of brilliant sunshine.
                                                                               Tom Milne