Celestine
Célestine... bonne à tout faire
Comedy
She'll tickle your fancy !
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la Braquette's estate, she meets the hayseed handyman Sébastien and the butler Malou, who reward her favors with the offer of employment. In a manner recalling Terence Stamp's effect on the household in TEOREMA, Celestine's open and relaxed attitude toward sexuality has a transformative effect on the isolated, moribund inhabitants of the mansion, imbuing them with gift of renewed life for the men and women alike, that remains even after a third act twist that forces her to betray them.
1974-10-16
fr
Cast
Director
Jesús Franco
Lina Romay as Célestine
Olivier Mathot as Count Fernand
Howard Vernon as Grandfather
Pamela Stanford as Martine
Monica Swinn as Mademoiselle Ursule
Richard Bigotini as Malou, the Butler
Anna Gladysek as Janine, a prostitute
Henri Guégan as Matthias
Raymond Hardy as Sebastien
Jean-Pierre Bouyxou as Moral Policeman
Jesús Franco as Sleeping Man