Italy 1965. Marcello, a middle-class man, decides to spend the night with a prostitute. He gets in touch with a luxurious brothel managed by a very strict owner with draconian rules. Among multiple women introduced to him he chooses Bice, a young woman in her early twenties. After their sexual intercourse the bedroom’s phone rings.
Poetic, delicate, engaging. "Portrait de Rosa, à la française" gently draws you into this passionate love story, with a love text that fits well with the images of Rosa's smiling face. A narrative that recalls the “nouvelle vague” interpreted with today's eyes.
A disillusioned priest must deal with the disappearance of one of his pinned insects: a Prosopocoilus savagei.
