La Femme aux bottes rouges (1974)
Directed by Juan Luis Buñuel

Comedy / Drama / Fantasy

Film Synopsis

An obscenely wealthy art collector, Pérou, develops an obsessive fascination with a young female writer, Françoise.  This strange passion is nurtured when she agrees to pose naked for him.  Afterwards, he intercepts the letters that Françoise sends to a young publisher, Marc, with whom she is in love.  Pérou replies to the letters himself...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Juan Luis Buñuel
  • Script: Juan Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, Colette Crochot, Pierre-Jean Maintigneux, Clement Biddle Wood, Roberto Bodegas (dialogue)
  • Cinematographer: Leopoldo Villaseñor
  • Music: Jean-Louis Ducarme, Michael Ionesco
  • Cast: Catherine Deneuve (Françoise LeRoi), Fernando Rey (Perrot), Adalberto Maria Merli (Man), Jacques Weber (Painter), José Sacristán (Valet), Emma Cohen (Sophie), Laura Betti (Leonore), Pilar Torres (Young Françoise LeRoi), Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui, Manuel Barrio, José María Caffarel, Carmen Martínez Sierra, Ángel Menéndez, Antonio Orengo, Juan Antonio Peral, Nélida Quiroga, Su San Wan
  • Country: France / Italy / Spain
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 100 min

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