“The Côte d’Azur is a sunny place populated by dark beings.” The film opens with this quote from the famous British novelist Somerset Maughamappreciated by its readers for its humor and its art of intelligent mockery. Welcome to the Bay of Angels, its cornices lined with sublime villas, its cliff-side swimming pools, its leather-interior coupe-cabriolets, its glamorous façade, its microcosm of the wealthy and its petty crooks.
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Martha, for her part, spends without counting – she has the means – to maintain Adrien, a greedy gigolo who passes himself off as an inspired writer (Pierre Nineyexcellent as a lounge bastard). If the diva does not know that he is cheating on her with Margot, with whom he is madly in love, she is no less lucid: “ He likes beautiful things, …
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