The Mushroom (1970)
"Le champignon" (original title)

A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professional career. He is befriended by an older female artist who is fond of hallucinogenic ... See full summary »

Director:

Marc Simenon

Writers:

Alphonse Boudard (screenplay), Marc Simenon (screenplay)

Stars:

Mylène Demongeot, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Alida Valli

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Mylène Demongeot	...	Anne Calder
Jean-Claude Bouillon	...	Le docteur Eric Calder
Alida Valli	...	Linda Benson
Philippe Monnet	...	Gaëtan Benson
Catherine Allégret	...	Jeanette
Jean Claudio	...	L'inspecteur Kogan
Georges Géret	...	Kurt
Guy Grosso	...	L'acteur du film publicitaire
Claude Para
François Simon	...	Le juge d'instruction Forman
Gérard Carat	...	(as Gérard Carrat)
Jean Landier
Robert Favart

Storyline

A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professional career. He is befriended by an older female artist who is fond of hallucinogenic mushrooms. When his wife is late for their anniversary celebration, he drinks and takes mushrooms with the artist. He wakes up to find she has died and is fearful he may have accidentally killed her.

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Plot Keywords:

artist | investigation | drugs | drug addict | doctor | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Italy France

Language:

French

Release Date:

8 April 1970 (France)

Also Known As:

The Mushroom

Filming Locations:

Switzerland

Company Credits

Production Co:

Firmament Films, GI Film, Méditerranée Cinéma

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

User Reviews

Psychedelic relic

Psychedelia was already becoming fast a thing of the past by 1970 ,and however,Marc Simenon ,Georges Simenon's son felt compelled to include one of these wacky sequences in his "le champignon" (the mushroom (sic)) aka as "l'assassin frappe à l'aube" .Featuring his blonde wife Mylène Demongeot and totally wasting a first -class thespian such as Alida Valli -who had rarely been so ridiculous- ,Simenon tried to imitate Clouzot or Chabrol but his work is completely insignificant and is nothing but a jumble where we find a workaholic wife, her husband's war memories and his late mother who treated him bad, plus a neurotic young man,an old hoodlum,and a nymphomaniac painter who used drugs as the rock groups did in those trouble times:just for the sake of art..Ah it takes place in Switzerland and yes they treat themselves to a delicious fondue .