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A young woman named Marie, facing oppression and exploitation, begins selling her body, shaking the male-dominated capitalist society of Tellier.

Comedy in which three beautiful and educated women hire a suave tutor, Willy, ostensibly for 13 year old Flo, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.

Charles and Lucie, an old and poor couple, inherits a luxurious house in the South of France.

Marc and his gang have a brilliant idea (or so they think!) : they will kidnap Vénus de Palma, a (very) rich heiress. Well Venus, also known as Cookie, is duly abducted but holding the lovely twenty-year-old beauty is a horse of another color. Cookie is indeed both seductive and intelligent and manages to seduce one member of the gang after the other, pitting the ones against the others... The brilliant idea soon proves a nightmare!

Using rare and unseen material, Gance's young partner Kaplan revisits the filmmaker's career in the 20s ,which culminated in the Napoleon epic, which is being reassembled and restored in preparation for an early 80s presentation.

Kaplan documents the arrival of art works for a major Picasso show at the Grand Palais in Paris, as they are put up for display. Picasso himself apparently liked the resulting hour of footage.