Marie-Christine Barrault

is so well cast as Francoise. There's truly an innocence about her looks - the innocence Jean sees in church, at her home, as she locks the door of her bedroom when he stays at her home.

Subsequent directors saw much the same - whether Woody Allen in Stardust Memories (she's the dutiful mom - in contrast to Charlotte Rampling's sexy kinkiness), in Table of Five (the lovelorn woman on ship in whom Jon Voight finds solace after his wife who had abandoned him - is killed), in Cousin, Cousine (her most famous role) in which she's the much cheated upon wife - who finds love at a wedding (with the cousin of the bride to whom her own male cousin marries).

It's this impression that causes such a surprise when she's the vulgar gluttonous slatternly spying woman in "A Love in Germany!