L'affare Dominici

First, it is very strange that this outstanding film was directed by a so bland director, who was a war in Indochina war reporter, before becoming a director without any personal style, but with some good films such as CHARLIE BRAVO, an awesome war film better for me than LA 317 ème SECTION and L'ARDOISE, a taut and gritty crime movie. And just after made his best film l'AFFAIRE DOMINICI, he will become a porn junk movies director. It is very hard to believe; the transition between one of Jean Gabin's best performances and porn movies.... Some French directors will do the same Jose Benazéraf, Jean Claude Roy..;But them, unlike Claude Bernard Aubert, did not direct the greatest French actor just before.... And here, once more after LA HORSE, Jean Gabin plays a farmer fighting against institutions. In real life Gabin was a farmer, besides being an actor: a profession he disliked and which he used only to finance his farm, horses and lands.