Mademoiselle

Mademoiselle is set in a small French village where a series of destructive acts — poisoned wells and livestock, unexplained fires and floods — have been blamed on the seasonal Italian workers who arrive each summer. The culprit is the village schoolteacher, a repressed and withdrawn woman known to everyone only as Mademoiselle. She directs her frustration at Manou, an Italian lumberjack she desires, tormenting his son Bruno in her classroom and steering suspicion toward the father for the crimes she has committed herself.

The film was directed by Tony Richardson, released in 1966 and standing fifth among the features he made. Marguerite Duras wrote the screenplay, and Oscar Lewenstein produced for Woodfall Film Productions with Procinex. Jeanne Moreau plays the title role, with Ettore Manni as Manou, Keith Skinner as Bruno, Umberto Orsini as Antonio, Georges Aubert as René and Jane Beretta as Annette among a credited cast of 27. It runs 105 minutes and belongs to the drama genre, a British-French co-production.

On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.1 from around 1,900 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7 out of 10 from a much smaller base of 48 votes. The two audiences agree closely on the film's merits, though the far larger sample on IMDb gives that figure more weight.