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Like cats, Rohmer's male protagonists watch the world go by and occasionally pounce upon a choice morsel in order to engage it in mysterious play, then walk away. Adrien is a dealer in antiques who determines to spend his summer literally doing nothing in a friend's Saint-Tropez villa. There he finds two other guests, his friend Daniel, a painter; and Haydée, a young woman who brings home any guy she likes. Her sexual ease rankles the men's presumed moral superiority (and something more inferior), and they dub her "the collector." When she sleeps with Daniel, Adrien intellectualizes that their liaison is for his benefit. Tom Milne described this film's "teasing paradoxes...conjured by the airy, inconsequential sensuality of (a) Saint-Tropez summer." (JB)