Die Nacht des Siegers

Sergio Gobbi was already a crime film specialist in the early seventies, as a director or producer: LE TEMPS DES LOUPS, LA PART DES LIONS, but not only crime and it is surprising to check how he tried to adapt his films and atmospheres to the new era, period, the eighties. He also gave us L'ARBALETE, in 1984 I guess. The eighties trademark is more than obvious here, with so many details such as music, camera work, lighting, actor directing. So don't expect to find LE TEMPS DES LOUPS again, you could be deceived. It is a small movie, one of the last crime ones of the decade, before Olivier Marchal arrival in the early two thousands. In the early eighties, there was also Jean Claude Missaien's movies and a couple of others, rapidly forgettable. So this one is a rather good surprise, with no real director's touch, if so Gobbi has ever had one; though there were some common elements between LE TEMPS DES LOUPS and LA PART DES LIONS, in the early seventies. Lousy acting and naive scenes unfortunately.