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Put Bernard Blier and SImone Signoret together with cinematographer Jean Bourgoin and you expect high quality.Was this ever going to be a bad surprise.
This film has got nothing at all,not even the two leading players perform good(Bernard Blier looks really lost).The story sucks and what should be a film noir or mystery is nothing more than a relationship crisis movie about power and money. The climax of the mystery is really an anti climax cause there isn't any.
The way that Allegret puts down mankind and women in particular is almost degrading.All that the women in the movie(that is Simone Signoret and Jane Marken who is really annoying by the way with that laugh)are after is the money of the men.I mean please!
The opening shots are not bad but the black fade outs become annoying at some point.The ultimate Femme Fatale Simone Signoret is portrayed like a cheap hooker in this movie,and the mother is even worse.She reminded me of the a-social "Ma Flodder" of Huub Stapel's Dutch blockbuster FLODDER.
Thank me that Signoret would go on to divorce Allegret and marry Yves Montand,together with starring in one of the greatest French movies ever made,LES DIABOLIQUES. Watch that movie,forget about this one! 3/10
Put Bernard Blier and SImone Signoret together with cinematographer Jean Bourgoin and you expect high quality.Was this ever going to be a bad surprise.
This film has got nothing at all,not even the two leading players perform good(Bernard Blier looks really lost).The story sucks and what should be a film noir or mystery is nothing more than a relationship crisis movie about power and money. The climax of the mystery is really an anti climax cause there isn't any.
The way that Allegret puts down mankind and women in particular is almost degrading.All that the women in the movie(that is Simone Signoret and Jane Marken who is really annoying by the way with that laugh)are after is the money of the men.I mean please!
The opening shots are not bad but the black fade outs become annoying at some point.The ultimate Femme Fatale Simone Signoret is portrayed like a cheap hooker in this movie,and the mother is even worse.She reminded me of the a-social "Ma Flodder" of Huub Stapel's Dutch blockbuster FLODDER.
Thank me that Signoret would go on to divorce Allegret and marry Yves Montand,together with starring in one of the greatest French movies ever made,LES DIABOLIQUES. Watch that movie,forget about this one! 3/10