Cult epics presents the Just Jaeckin Collection, featuring three female driven cult classics by the director of Emmanuelle.

Cult epics presents the Just Jaeckin Collection, featuring three female driven cult classics by the director of Emmanuelle. Following the worldwide smashes Emmanuelle (1974) and The Story of O (1975), influential French filmmaker Just Jaeckin returned in 1977 with the sensual real-life drama Madame Claude, starring Françoise Fabian in the title role along with Klaus Kinski and Dayle Haddon. The editor-in-chief (Dayle Haddon) of a New York women's magazine is organizing the 'Last Romantic Lover' contest to find out if men still have a sense of romance. One of the winners is a circus lion-tamer (Gérard Ismaël), who's prize is to spend 10 days with her. Coming-of-age cult classic Girls features: Susanne (Charlotte Wailor), Annie (Zoé Chauveau) and Catherine (Anne Parillaud) out of high school, meet every night in discos and cinemas to meet boys. Susanne younger sister Betty (Isabele Mejias) often joins them and copies their behavior.

Bonus Materials

• 4K Transfers & Restoration
• Audio Commentaries by Jeremy Richey
• Interview with Dayle Haddon (2022)
• Presentation at the Cinémathèque Française (2022, HD)
• Who is Just Jaeckin? - Essay by Jeremy Richey (2025)
• Interview with actress Isabelle Mejias (2025)
• Archival interview with Just Jaeckin, Anne Parrilaud, Zoé Chaveau, Charlotte Walior (TFI, 1982)
• Girls: The German cut
• Promotional Galleries
• Trailer
• First pressing includes 20-page booklet w/ Essay by Jeremy Richey
• Slipcase

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       Dayle Haddon
•       Klaus Kinski
•       Anne Parillaud

Director: Just Jaeckin

Additional Details

Label: Cult Epics

Genre: Cult

Language: French

Run Time: 308 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/15/26

UPC: 881190024393