Bilitis (1977)
Directed by David Hamilton

Drama / Romance

Film Synopsis

Bilitis is an attractive young girl from a comfortable background who is now a boarder at a private school of some repute. Not yet a woman, she spends the summer with a married couple whose relationship has already started to fall apart. Bilitis finds herself strangely attracted to the wife and devotes herself to finding her a suitable lover. She finds a pretty local boy who appears to fit the bill...

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Film Credits

Director: David Hamilton
Script: Robert Boussinot, Catherine Breillat, Jacques Nahum, Pierre Louÿs (novel)
Cinematographer: Bernard Daillencourt
Music: Francis Lai
Cast: Patti D'Arbanville (Bilitis), Mona Kristensen (Melissa), Bernard Giraudeau (Lucas), Mathieu Carrière (Mikias), Gilles Kohler (Pierre), Irka Bochenko (Prudence), Jacqueline Fontaine (Head Mistress), Marie-Thérèse Caumont (Sub-Principal), Germaine Delbat (Principal), Madeleine Damien (Nanny), Camille Larivière (Susy), Catherine Leprince (Helen)
Country: France / Italy
Language: French
Support: Color (Eastmancolor)
Runtime: 89 min

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