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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.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
116min.
DVD Release Date:
03/30/2004
Director(s):
Joseph Losey
Starring:
Isabelle Huppert , Jeanne Moreau , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Daniel Olbrychski , Lisette Malidor
Themes:
Office Politics,Social Climbing,Work Ethics,Ladder to the Top
Tone:
Cynical,Biting,Satirical,Wry
Keywords:
France,Japan,around-the-world,business,city-life,corruption,country-girl,couple,encounter,entrepreneur,ethics,extramarital-affair,family,farming,father,finances,fishing,girl,journey,killing,loot,love,lust,naive,odyssey,on-the-road,power,promise,sex,sexual,sexuality,social-classes,wife,woman,youth