“The ‘Now’ Child…”

Armand (Nino Castelnuovo), a young French entrepreneur in Rome on business, sets his sights on Marguerite (Danielle Gaubert), the kept woman of an elderly count and de facto "it” girl of the local social scene. A relationship begins to blossom between the two—until Armand’s father (Massimo Serato) suspects that Marguerite’s interest in his son is purely financial and convinces her to leave him. But as Marguerite returns to her previous life of promiscuity and drug abuse on the party scene, she finds herself trapped in a tragic downward spiral to nobody can stop before it’s too late. 

Radley Metzger followed his breakthrough drama Thérèse and Isabelle (1968) with this faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s La Dame aux Camélias. With an iconic original score by Piero Piccioni, eye-popping production design by Enrico Sabbatini, and Metzger’s trademark sparkling visual compositions, Camille 2000 is a high fashion romantic melodrama like no other.