The Girl With the Golden Eyes (La Fille aux yeux d'or) ...

Marie Laforêt, Paul Guers, Françoise Dorléac, Francoise Prévost, Frederic de Pasquale ... see more  , Carla Marlier , Alice Sapritch , Philippe Moreau , Jacques Verlier

This routine film by novice director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco handles the taboo subject of a homosexual relationship between women, though the story still implies that if a man falls in love with a lesb... read more ian she can change her sexual orientation. Loosely based on a novel by Honore de Balzac, a skirt-chasing fashion photographer meets a charming young woman who captures his interest immediately. She is not wholly forthcoming, but after a period of time, he realizes that he is in love with her -- she is not just another conquest. It takes awhile before he also realizes that she is the partner of his femme associate who is possessive, at the very least. As it turns out, one corner in this odd triangle is highly unstable. This was one of the early films of Françoise Dorleac, Catherine Deneuve's beautiful sister who was killed in an automobile accident in 1967. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi