Le chien

This is a young Delon contemplating life. It has its moments, certainly beautiful persons and places, and a truly to die for dog.

Love, loyalty, deception, business all come into this 57-minute feature. Certainly makes you think and certainly has some points better than others - but if you like Delon, you won't want to miss this.

Important is to know, that Delon was to this time (1961) with Romy Schneider together and parrallels are interesting to discover in this movie.

A marvellous movie, very deep, poetic and political, really modern!

Alain Delon and his rival and pal Jean Paul Belmondo have both in common to have made ONE film, where they both play characters, lonely characters, and their dog. Alain Delon during his early years of career - LE CHIEN, this very one, and Jean Paul Belmondo for his very last movie: UN HOMME ET SON CHIEN. Here, Delon announces unvoluntarily his character seven years later in LE SAMOURAI: the loneliness of a man with a pet; here a dog, and in LE SAMOURAI a bird. This small feature is pretty interesting and also unavoidable for any Alain Delon's fan. And I am sure only a few of them know this one. I had never heard of it before watching it today.

If you love them probably you will watch, it's not very long, only one hour. But, it's boring to death, you will need a lot of coffee to resist until the end. There is no story, just the pretext to watch them. And, you know what, they are just beautiful, they were not great actors. The love story between Delon and his dog it's a story for little babies. Rex the dog plays very well the role of dog.