Sans mobile apparent (1971)

Director:

Philippe Labro

Writers:

Evan Hunter (novel)
Vincenzo Labella (writer)

Release Date:

15 September 1971 (France)

Genre:

Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and...

Plot Keywords:

Foreign Language Adaptation | Based On Novel

Cast

Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	Stéphane Carella
Dominique Sanda	...	Sandra Forest
Sacha Distel	...	Julien Sabirnou
Carla Gravina	...	Jocelyne Rocca
Paul Crauchet	...	Francis Palombo
Laura Antonelli	...	Juliette Vaudreuil
Jean-Pierre Marielle	...	Perry Rupert-Foote
Stéphane Audran	...	Hélène Vallée
Gilles Ségal	...	Di Bozzo
Pierre Dominique	...	Doume
Erich Segal	...	Hans Kleinberg
Jean-Jacques Delbo	...	Le supérieur / Commissioner
André Falcon	...	Le sous-préfet / Mayor
Alexis Sellan	...	Pierre Barroyer
Esmeralda Ruspoli	...	Madame Forest

Also Known As:

Senza movente (Italy)
Without Apparent Motive

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Company:

Cinétel

How the past and a not so innocent accident rushes back in the killing of seemingly unrelated people. Bravo Philippe Labro.

An exceptional movie construction, masterminding the script, the actors, the music and the location. Each scene, per day and murder, and each actor's performance leave vivid pictures in my mind: the plunge in the swimming-pool, the deceived look of Gravina in her love-sex affair with Trintignant, the full power run of Trintignant around the Nice harbor, the final death posture of the murderer. Jean-Louis Trintignant camps a local French Riviera inspector, very self-image oriented as are most of the featured residents of the Cote d'Azur. A series of murders with no evident link is followed by Trintignant, each one filling a piece of the puzzle and bringing him closer to the murderer. Labro, the film director, shoots real-street-life and picks up the best essence of each of his actors. Beyond Trintignant, each other actor seems to have the second role while playing their cast with their own personality. Labro could have been another Jean-Pierre Melville and his magnificent "Le Cercle Rouge". This "Sans Mobile Apparent" showed all the promising ingredients needed by the French cinema to find a respected place in action movies. Labro followed up with "l'Heritier", not bad, far not as good, the magic having disappeared. My biggest regret: "Sans Mobile Apparent" is as yet unavailable in DVD and does not play on TV anymore.