"(Eve tells of the) sado-masochistic relationship between a phony Welsh writer (Stanley Baker), living in Venice on the fame of a novel written by his dead brother, and a provocative high-class prostitute (Jeanne Moreau). One of Losey's most intensely personal works,() Eve is concerned with the corruption and destruction of a relationship by social forces. Losey (who worked with Brecht in Hollywood) adopts various Brechtian alienation effects-the foreign setting, the framework of biblical references and a high degree of stylization and abstraction throughout. Indeed, the film displays that very objectivity and lucidity which its characters need so desperately. The film also abounds with symbols such as water, masks and mirrors, but the most powerful symbol is Venice itself: decadent, wintry, a museum town, a powerful visualization of a dead and deadening society." -British Film Institute *despite its having been insensitively re-cut to a new soundtrack by its producers. Of the director's cut, Losey said, "(It) was by far the best film I have ever made..."