The Trout is a meditative revisiting of Eva, with Isabelle Huppert now playing a self-conscious 1980s femme fatale and Jeanne Moreau in a cameo role. Instead of a writer, this time the male prey is a banker, and instead of decadent old Venice, Losey stages the battlefield for the war between the sexes in the brave new world of international finance in Switzerland and in Tokyo. Huppert plays a precocious young woman plucked by a married financier from the obscurity of a trout farm in the Swiss countryside. Losey reportedly cast Huppert in part because of her ability to play comedy and tragedy simultaneously, and indeed, the film is both serious drama and the blackest of comedies.