Themes: Ladder to the Top, Social Climbing, Work Ethics
Main Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Olbrychski, Lisette Malidor
Release Year: 1982
Country: FR
Run Time: 116 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
This French sex farce is translated in English as The Trout. Joseph Losey directed and co-wrote the film, which stars Isabelle Huppert as Frederique, a young woman living on her family's rural trout farm. Frederique is trapped in a dull marriage to a rube. She decides to leave him and the trout farm for the city; she wants to make her living in the financial sector. She ends up in a cutthroat corporate world and meets up with the sophisticated Lou (the legendary Jeanne Moreau). Frederique finds herself trading sexual favors for corporate advancement and becoming more deeply involved in a complicated series of business dealings. Eventually, she longs for a return to her simpler life on the trout farm. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
Jacques Spiesser - Galuchat; Isao Yamagata - Daigo Hamada; Roland Bertin - Count; Lucas Delvaux - Young Employee; Pierre Forget - Frederique's Father; Ippo Fujikawa - Kumitaro; Ruggero Raimondi - Himself; Jean-Paul Roussillon - Père Perjon; Alexis Smith - Gloria, rich widow; Craig Stevens - Carter, company president; Anne Francois - Air Hostess
Credit
Joseph Losey - Director, Marie Castro-Vazquez - Editor, Richard Hartley - Composer (Music Score), Alexandre Trauner - Production Designer, Henri Alékan - Cinematographer, Yves Rousset-Rouard - Producer, Bernard Bats - Sound/Sound Designer, Monique Lange - Screenwriter, Joseph Losey - Screenwriter, Roger Vailland - Book Author
