Les mauvaises rencontres (1955)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Alexandre Astruc

Writers:

Cécil Saint-Laurent (novel)
Alexandre Astruc (scenario, dialogue and adaptation) ...

Release Date:

21 October 1955 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Through her answers to police inspector Corbin's questions, investigating Dr Danieli's suicide, Catherine Racan draws her self-portrait...

Plot Keywords:

Paris | Ménage À Trois | Crimes Of Passion | Based On Novel

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Jean-Claude Pascal	...	Blaise Walter (as Jean Claude Pascal)
Anouk Aimée	...	Catherine Racan
Gaby Sylvia	...	Hélène Ducouret
Philippe Lemaire	...	Alain Bergère
Yves Robert	...	L'inspecteur Forbin
Giani Esposito	...	Pierre Jaeger
Michel Piccoli	...	Un inspecteur
Claude Dauphin	...	Le docteur Jacques Daniéli

Also Known As:

Bad Liaisons (International: English title)

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Studios de la Victorine - 16 avenue Edoard Grinda, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Company:

Les Films Marceau

Bad encounters of the last kind

Alexandre Astruc himself once told how this movie had badly dated.Seen today,it is terribly boring.Handicapped by constant voice over provided by the leading actress in a funeral voice and by the "narrator" who ridiculously sermonizes about today's -that is to say in the fifties - youth,this story seems too intellectual ,too superficial ,to move us deeply .Even a burning subject (abortion) was not that new since Henri-Georges Clouzot had already broached it in his classic "Le Corbeau" a decade earlier.The entire story is told with flashbacks ,the heroine sitting in a police station .Alexandre Astruc would do much better with his fine adaptation of Guy De Maupassant's "Une Vie" (1958).In that movie,the voice over is never irritating ,for Claude Renoir's dazzling cinematography easily makes up for it.