Un soir... par hasard (1963)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Ivan Govar

Writers:

André Allard (screenplay)
Jean-Claude Bergey (screenplay)

Genre:

Adventure | Action | Crime

Plot Keywords:

Nudity | Based On Novel

Cast

Annette Vadim	...	Florence (as Annette Stroyberg)
Michel Le Royer	...	André Ségonne
Jean Servais	...	Piort
Pierre Brasseur	...	Charlèz
Gil Delamare	...	Le policier

Also Known As:

Agent of Doom (USA)
Het gebeurde op een avond... (Belgium: Flemish title)

Runtime:

Belgium:84 min | USA:90 min

Country:

France | Belgium

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Belgium:KNT

Company:

GRK Films

Re-animator?

A young scientist (Michel Le Royer) has a motorcycle accident,one evening ...He awakes in a strange house where a sinister-looking man (Jean Servais)tells him:"you were dead ,but we brought you back to life".The man reanimates a cat ,as Herbert West will do in "Re-Animator" (1985).There the comparison ends .In the mysterious house ,there is also the obligatory gorgeous strange woman (played by Annette Stroyberg aka Annette Vadim)the hero falls in love with.

The plot thickens:it seems that,like the count of Cagliostro,these two persons seem immortal:wasn't the lady a model for Auguste Renoir and other famous painters of another era such as David ? But unfortunately the ending is a big disappointment.It almost thoroughly ruins the mystery atmosphere,an unusual one in the French/Belgian cinema of the early sixties,then under the New Wavelet's thumb.

THe film should end when the hero finds back his motorcycle;all that follows is too derivative.Too bad.