Main Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Signoret, Hugues Quester
Release Year: 1975
Country: WG/IT/FR
Run Time: 114 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
The heiress Claire (Charlotte Rampling) in this movie is the daughter of the Miss Blandish of the film No Orchids for Miss Blandish. She has been raised under the unsympathetic eye of her aunt (Edwige Feuillere), who has no intention of seeing her receive her large inheritance. A somewhat violent girl (her father was a mentally retarded killer), she has been confined in a mental asylum. All the men who help her meet tragedy and death in the course of the film, but Claire gets help from other quarters, and her prospects look good. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
La Chair de l'orchidée (English: The Flesh of the Orchid) is a 1975 film adaptation of the 1948 novel, The Flesh of the Orchid by mystery writer James Hadley Chase. The story was selected by French director Patrice Chéreau, already well-known for his stage direction, as the subject for his first film.
