Alain Delon changes pace and goes in for some character melodrama - he plays a professor who arrives to teach in a small town where all the students are left wing. He gambles and has a crazy wife but it's okay there's a hot student for him to fall in love with.
There's lots of talk, and people looking anguished. The sex scene between Delon and the girl is quite hot and I enjoyed his nutty wife - less so the stuff involving Delon and his mates talking about the meaning of it all. It's beautifully shot and there's plenty of atmosphere with the rain swept small town by the sea, wind and so on (there's a British couple in a yacht at the opening which I liked).
Delon gives an excellent performance - he looks tired, jaded and actually damn cool with three day growth and a cigarette hanging from his mouth. But it's not story heavy to put it mildly and I grew impatient with it - I found it dull. And for all the talk about the meaning of life it's basically about a middle aged man rejuvenated by banging a young girl and it's hard to make that fresh.
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