Sinfonia per un massacro

There is no massacre although at the beginning there is rather a lot of talking about the five gangsters but as soon as they get going it is really entertaining and by the end there are rather a lot of deaths. There is nothing too nasty but just a bit short of it being comic so it is thrilling throughout and looks great. The black & white cinematography is crisp and wonderful much of it on location and especially when at night in Paris and Brussels and the neon and amazingly brilliant in the bars and restaurants. Claude Renoir was the man and also with Barbarella (1968) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and he had worked on, The Grande Illusion (1937) for his uncle, Jean Renoir. With this film although we think we know what is going to happen but not as there are several surprising moments all the time, as with in the train, by the car and of course when buying a newspaper. Splendid and dazzling.