Reading Matt Blake and David Deal's great,detailed book The Eurospy Guide,I was happily surprised to find a entry for a Claude Chabrol title! Currently looking for movies from the year for a "Auteurs in '64" viewing week, the coincidence of reading the entry at exactly the right time,led to me throwing meat for the tiger.
View on the film:
Having the option to take things easy due to only making it because the offer to make the film was the only one to get backing involving him after he had a string of flops, directing auteur Claude Chabrol & his regular cinematographer Jean Rabier cheerfully take the Euro Spy staples,and twist them into the French New Wave from the moment a slide-show on the mission is reflected on the faces of the agents.
Handed out the same year Goldfinger pointed at audiences at the top of the box office, Roger Hanin dodges the sophisticated image of 007, for a more brute force, sweaty Euro Spy agent, whilst Daniela Bianchi brings a touch of glamour by going from Bond Girl to Tiger Girl as Mehlica Baskine. Making it a mission to bring Jean Halain's novel to the screen, Hanin not only stars,but writes the adaptation, which Hanin wisely keeps as a nimble piece of Euro Spy thrills, via Tiger's continued attempts to keep an ambassador safe,leading Tiger to have to show his claws.
Displaying a mischievous edge in placing his agent to face off against wrestlers and a little person assassin, Chabrol brings his distinctive recurring motifs to the mission, via the karate fighting set-pieces jump-cutting on impact, the real airport location gliding along dissolving zoom-ins on Tiger looking out for assassins,and instead of a groovy lair for the baddies,Chabrol gives them a fully loaded countryside bourgeoisie villa.
View on the film:
Having the option to take things easy due to only making it because the offer to make the film was the only one to get backing involving him after he had a string of flops, directing auteur Claude Chabrol & his regular cinematographer Jean Rabier cheerfully take the Euro Spy staples,and twist them into the French New Wave from the moment a slide-show on the mission is reflected on the faces of the agents.
Handed out the same year Goldfinger pointed at audiences at the top of the box office, Roger Hanin dodges the sophisticated image of 007, for a more brute force, sweaty Euro Spy agent, whilst Daniela Bianchi brings a touch of glamour by going from Bond Girl to Tiger Girl as Mehlica Baskine. Making it a mission to bring Jean Halain's novel to the screen, Hanin not only stars,but writes the adaptation, which Hanin wisely keeps as a nimble piece of Euro Spy thrills, via Tiger's continued attempts to keep an ambassador safe,leading Tiger to have to show his claws.
Displaying a mischievous edge in placing his agent to face off against wrestlers and a little person assassin, Chabrol brings his distinctive recurring motifs to the mission, via the karate fighting set-pieces jump-cutting on impact, the real airport location gliding along dissolving zoom-ins on Tiger looking out for assassins,and instead of a groovy lair for the baddies,Chabrol gives them a fully loaded countryside bourgeoisie villa.