Lead actor Philippe Marlaud died a few months after the film's release when he burned to death in a campsite when his tent caught fire.
The first of director Éric Rohmer's six "Comedies et Proverbes" series of movies of the 1980s. The other five, in chronological order, are A Good Marriage (1982), Pauline at the Beach (1983), Full Moon in Paris (1984), The Green Ray (1986) and Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987).
One of the Canadian tourists is played by Mary Stephen who would go on to become a regular editor for Éric Rohmer.
Note that the title character only physically appears in the film in a photograph.
The park scenes were filmed in the Parisian park of Buttes Chaumont where Éric Rohmer had also made his short film Nadja in Paris (1964).