In his subsequent affair with a young girl (CATHERINE SPAAK) whom he picks up, his approach is anything but stuffy. While living as his newly set-up mistress, she disregards his admonishments of not talking to strange men and finds her own pleasures with a playwright whose casting couch is a promissory launching pad for a brilliant career on the stage. He is diverted from her by the famous actress (FRANCINE BERG) with whom he had shared their early days of ecstatic love. The ecstasy is gone for her with the sad realization that only young men like the Count (JEAN SOREL) can now fulfill her jaded expectations ...



Jane Fonda stars in Circle of Love

JANE FONDA HAS BEEN GIVEN DIRECTOR ROGER VADIM'S SPECIAL TOUCH in Circle of Love the EastmanColor picture. For her role as a restless young wife, Miss Fonda is exquisitely dressed and undressed in the best of Parisian fashion.

Miss Fonda achieved tremendous popularity in France when she arrived there to make her first motion picture for famed director Rene Cement. Although she had previously studied painting and languages in Paris while completing her education, her presence at the time did not cause any undue notice. However, the grown-up Fonda was a far cry from the school girl miss, and with her piquant beauty and long tapering legs, she soon attracted lensmen which resulted in her dominating the front pages of magazines throughout the European continent. When Miss Fonda started filming Circle of Love Vadim's talent of transforming girls into women soon became apparent and she was launched on another round with the photographers who found the "new" image all the more exciting.

Circle of Love was adapted for the screen by Jean Anouilh from Arthur Schnitzler's stage play "Reigen." The distinguished playwright has brought his own point of view and wit in developing the theme of love and its constant renewal. The setting has been changed from turn of the century Vienna to Paris on the eve of World War I when that city, as if sensing the impending holocaust to come, was pleasure bound as never before.

Anna Karma, Marie Dubois, Catherine Spaak and Francine Berg are the other leading charmers who are pursued by Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean Sorel, Claude Giraud, Bernard Noel and Maurice Ronet in Circle of Love The Walter Reade-Sterling release is a Robert and Haymond production.



Cast of Circle of Love

The Wife .............................. JANE FONDA
The Husband .............................. MAURICE RONET
The Count .............................. JEAN SOREL
The Young Girl .............................. CATHERINE SPAAK
The Chambermaid .............................. ANNA KARINA
The Young Gentlemen .............................. JEAN-CLAUDE BRIALY
The Actress .............................. FRANCINE BERG
The Author .............................. BERNARD NOEL
The Prostitute .............................. MARIE DUBOIS
The Soldier .............................. CLAUDE GIRAUD



Credits for Circle of Love

Director .............................. ROGER VADIM
Screenplay (Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's stage play) JEAN ANOUILH
Music .............................. MICHEL MAGNE
Sets .............................. FRANCOIS DE LAMOTHE
Costumes .............................. MARC DOELNITZ
A ROBERT & RAYMOND HAKIM PRODUCTION
IN EASTMANCOLOR


Running Time: 105 Minutes


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