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Traitement de Choc (1972)

Director: Alain Jessua

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From Time Out Film Guide

Jessua's first two films, Life Upside Down and Comic Strip Hero, attracted little more than good notices over here, so his third was distributed as an exploitation picture retitled in honour of Delon's cock-flashing sequence. Don't be misled, since the film is actually a political allegory fashioned as a horror story. Girardot, visiting Dr Devilers' clifftop clinic for rejuvenation treatment, discovers behind the futuristic settings a nightmare world of primeval instincts and ruthless logic that holds no place for the weak. Jessua handles his mixture of suspense and satire with assurance, drawing fine performances from Girardot, confused and finally uncertain of her sanity, and Delon as the diabolic yet half-sympathetic doctor in whose arms she finds herself. A neat cautionary tale on human vanity cum fable about hypocrisy.

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Cast & crew

Director: Alain Jessua

Producer: Raymond Danon, Jacques Dorfmann

Cast: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Michel Duchaussoy, Robert Hirsch, Jean-François Calvé, Guy Saint-Jean full cast

Genre(s): Horror

Duration: 91 mins


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