An early Nouvelle Vague entry by Claude Chabrol (released the year before Godard's groundbreaking *Breathless* exploded onto screens), this drama seems primarily interested in staging a number of elaborate, captivating sequences and in exploring the inner lives and relationships of its two main protagonists, resulting in a largely unstructured, slice-of-life style plot, its main themes being the emptyness of high society lifestyle and the equally hypocritical and empty rebellion its young men and women are trying to sell us, heavy on style and attitude but devoid of meaning, values and consequence. It's all nothing more than a pseudo-rebellious act put up by rich young brats who sooner or later are gonna fall in line to the exploitative ways of their filthy rich parents. Especially noteworthy about this film is a long party sequence in which things get way out of hand, which might have served as a blueprint for a similar scene in Fellini's *La Dolce Vita*.