Starring Jacques Dutronc and Bulle Ogier, it tells the story of two gamblers, a man and a woman, who team up in a casino and eventually realise that, however clever you think you are, you will always lose unless you cheat.

A croupier is bribed to use a radio-controlled ball, which Suzie operates from a transmitter in a cigarette packet.

After another huge coup, Elric immediately flies to France with a case full of their winnings and Suzie follows later.

In The New York Times Vincent Canby called it "a long overdue treat", "another entertaining, weirdly elegant tale about people moving too fast, living too intensely, along the thin line that separates elation from despair."

[1] The Los Angeles Times said it is "an existential love story that also laments the loss of honor and meaning in contemporary life.