"Is Sex Addiction bad for your health?"
Prey to his desire for women, Richard O. explores the sinuous mysteries of eroticism in a Paris full of summer inhabitants in the torrid month of August.
Social & External
The people behind it
Mathieu Amalric
Richard O.
Rhizlaine El Cohen
The one who kills Richard
Stéphane Terpereau
'Le Grand'
Alexandra Sollogoub
The girl from the restaurant
Caroline Demangel
The young woman with ribons
Ludmila Ruoso
Richard's girlfriend
Marianne Costa
The tarot reader
Lucie Borleteau
The fake geisha
Valérie Bert
Richard's neighbor
Elise Receveur
The model
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