Elizabeth Porquerol, who, despite her age, remains very acute, recalls [Dominique Aury as] “a very well-bred and polite person, always smiling and affable. But everyone is double, or triple, or quadruple. Every character has its hidden sides. One doesn’t reveal one’s secrets to all and sundry.”


Geraldine Bedell, in The Observer, Sunday July 25, 2004.