Notes

Alastair Macaulay about Ashton: "It once prompted the critic Nancy Godner to surmise that comedy can be as profound as tragedy"
"Ashton had learned during the 1950s that innocence and sexuality aren't mutually opposed, and in "Fille" Lise and Colas are thoroughly tactile - they greet each other with kisses, caresses and embraces, and, as so often with Ashton's women, we can even tell something of Lise's erogenous zones - but they aren't neurotic or complex, and they love other people as well as each other".