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Time Out says

Nobody had a good word to say for this adaptation of Marguerite Duras' novel which, though a potentially good script (by Duras and Dassin), is treated so heavily that it becomes risible. Finch and Schneider play a couple deciding whether to or not, while Finch's alcoholic wife (Mercouri) goes bananas to the point of being obsessed by a local crime passionel. Much of the blame can be attributed directly to Mercouri's barnstorming performance, though the inappropriately tarted-up Spanish postcard settings don't help either. Strange that a director like Dassin, who spearheaded the neo-realist movement in Hollywood after World War II, should look so completely out of touch with any level of reality in later years.

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Release details

UK release:

1966

Duration:

85 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Jules Dassin

Cast:

Julián Mateos, Peter Finch, Romy Schneider, Melina Mercouri, Beatríz Savón

Music:

Cristóbal Halffter

Art Director:

Enrique Alarcon

Editor:

Roger Dwyre

Cinematography:

Gabor Pogany

Screenwriter:

Marguerite Duras, Jules Dassin

Producer:

Anatole Litvak, Jules Dassin

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Rated as: 4/5 (1 rating)

  • Ttotally disagree your review. Eclectic mix of noir,thriller,sexual triangle storytelling springboardied initially from seemingly straightforward spanish holiday family adventure.

    *ngela Sat Sep 15 2012
    Rated as: 4/5
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  • A brilliant, scary, fierce, illuminating movie set in a world of sun and stone. The film's themes and how they are played out go way over the head of most reviewers -at the timne because both Dassin and Duras were misunderstood and now because the "blog" posters have had no adult experiences. One of the best films of the last midcentury. Harrowing. The relationship between the two women is extraordinarily delineated. Finch is superb. The little girl is amazing. The VO dialogue isn't silly, it's meant as all Duras dialogue: unfiltered, lucid, psychic raving and confession. The film is to Neo-Realism as Pierrot le Fou is to Neo-Realism.

    Harry Lime Fri Mar 14 2008
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