

253 minutes
6/30/1973
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...

Juliet Berto
as Frederique

Jean-Pierre Léaud
as Colin

Bulle Ogier
as Pauline/Emilie

Françoise Fabian
as Lucie

Michael Lonsdale
as Thomas

Hermine Karagheuz
as Marie

Bernadette Lafont
as Sarah

Pierre Baillot
as Quentin

Michèle Moretti
as Lili

Michel Berto
as Honey Moon

Barbet Schroeder
as Gian-Reto

Éric Rohmer
as Balzac specialist