Love at the Top

Love at the Top (French: Le Mouton enragé) is a 1974 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville.^[1]

Plot[]

Nicolas Mallet is a modest bank employee resigned to social mediocrity for the security that his job gives him. Introverted and dull, with the assistance and under the guidance of a former high school friend, Claude Fabre, he will become a confident seducer, an opportunist upstart with no defined ambition. In the aftermath of the oil crisis, the Bel Ami of the 1970s experienced a remarkable social rise, relying exclusively on women whom he seduced almost unwittingly, while being remotely guided by Fabre. Going to seek power from those who rule him, knowing how to make himself indispensable, he will succeed in his ascent and favor that of his first conquest. It is only at the end of the film that we discover the real reasons for Fabre's manipulative attitude.

Cast[]

• Jean-Louis Trintignant as Nicolas Mallet
• Jean-Pierre Cassel as Claude Fabre
• Romy Schneider as Roberte Groult
• Jane Birkin as Marie-Paule
• Florinda Bolkan as Flora Danieli
• Henri Garcin as Berthoud
• Georges Beller as Ami de Marie-Paule
• Georges Wilson as Lourceuil
• Estella Blain as Shirley Douglas
• Michel Vitold as Georges Groult
• Mary Marquet as Mme Hermens
• Gisèle Casadesus as Mme Lourceuil

References[]

External links[]

• Love at the Top at IMDb

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