La Chair de l'orchidée (1975)
- Directed by
- Patrice Chéreau
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Germany, France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 35 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A wealthy young woman is held captive in a psychiatric hospital as part of a scheme. Her arrival triggers a chain of events involving a private detective and a strange caretaker.
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What happens
La Chair de l'orchidée (The Flesh of the Orchid) is a 1975 film by Patrice Chéreau as his directorial debut, adapted by him and by Jean-Claude Carrière from the 1948 book The Flesh of the Orchid by British writer James Hadley Chase, "a pulp-novel sequel to No Orchids for Miss Blandish" (1939). The film stars Charlotte Rampling, Simone Signoret, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère and, in a cameo, Alida Valli. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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