Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman

1973

French

5.1

♡ 7

Roger Vadim Director

Mathieu Carrière as L'abbé Paul

Ann Zacharias as La jeune Suédoise blessée

Robert Hossein as Louis Prévost

Maurice Ronet as Pierre Gonzague

Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's conscience. What does Jeanne want?