
Saint Tropez, 1975. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?... (Full plot summary below)
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Saint Tropez, 1975. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the assassination of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzSo much is thrown into the mix, if you don't like one twist in the story there is another to come shortly. |
| User ReviewSteve Bconvoluted murder mystery plenty of twists as only French cinema knows how |
| User ReviewStefanie CWhat's not to like with plot and psychological twists and the beauties of Romy Schneider and St. Tropez? |
| User ReviewSimon TI've only recently delved into Chabrol's thrillers (after dipping my toe in the water with his first nouvelle vague films (Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins) - and there are some excellent suspenseful movies from which to choose (basically any of the six films between Les Biches in 1968 and Just Before Nightfall in 1971). As with Hitchcock before him (and Chabrol wrote a famous book about the Master of Suspense along with Eric Rohmer), Chabrol deals with issues of guilt and moral complicity with a wry sense of humor. However, I found this international production (starring Romy Schneider and Rod Steiger) left me a bit cold. They are married but she takes a younger lover and they plot to kill him. But things don't go right and both of the men end up dead with Schneider then the prime suspect for the police (who are played rather comically). As the plot unravels there are a few twists and turns but somehow I never quite cared about Schneider or Steiger enough to feel suspense about their fates. I'm not sure whether this is the fault of the acting, the English-dubbed version I watched, the script, or Chabrol. Start somewhere else with his oeuvre. |
| User ReviewLee MThere are a few shocking relevations, twists and turns, but it all rings somewhat hollow given that it's happening to characters we feel no connection to because very little was done to flesh them out. |
| User ReviewStephen MA beautiful woman (Romy Schneider) and her lover hatch a plot to murder her rich, impotent, alcoholic husband (Rod Steger). Things seem to be going to plan until both husband and lover fail to return from the pre-arranged 'boating accident', and the woman finds herself the unwanted focus of two missing person investigations. Hmmm... I can't think of very much to say about this. After a clumsy start, things improve immensely once the police start sniffing around and asking awkward questions of Schneider, who at this stage is just as mystified as we are. Unfortunately, Chabrol tries our patience with a succession of ludicrous plot twists in the second half and the movie outstays its welcome. Schneider is superb and Jean Rochefort turns in a very droll performance as her crafty lawyer. Rod Steiger is fine but his dubbed voice is very distracting; he's probably better in the English language version, where there ought to be a closer correlation between his dialogue and the shapes his lips are making. |