Rendez-vous en noir (1977– ) User Reviews

Great story, incredible score!

[x_lars · 8/10 · 25 June 2004]

I remember seeing this french mini-series in my youth.

The story is based - and relatively true to - Cornell Woolrichs amazing thriller "Rendezvouz In Black". That's a story so scary, so vengeful, so bone-chilling, it'll make you sit on the edge of the chair!

If you don't know it, it's about a young man, who's fiancée is killed, while waiting for him, by a bottle, thrown out of a passing airplane, full of drunken huntsmen.

He carefully tracks each one of them down, and makes his revenge on someone close to the original member of the hunting party. Not one of them knows what's happening to them, and the only clue left them is a note, saying something like "How do You feel now?!

But what I remember the most, was the magnificent score for the series. I have never been able to track it down, but it was amazing. Once it got stuck in your ear, it was virtually impossible to get rid of.

I would greatly like to see this one again, but I've never seen a rerun. A remake would be an option, but I sure do hope, they'd keep the score!

Seen once as a teen in a German dubbed version and never forgot

[mvoodoo · 9/10 · 24 June 2019]

Not that it matters but I can agree to all previous reviews, a very impressive mini series at its time. I have been looking for clues since the late 70s but never even found out about the title. I'd really like to watch it again as I hadn't had missed a single minute of any episode broadcasted on German public TV back then, a long time before Arte was founded. Many (French) TV and Cinema productions of this time had some artfully voyeuristic way of using violence incidentally to carry the action (like in "Mortelle randonnee".) The revenge plot here is more moralistic in the sense of Inspector Derrick's musings. However, I am not a big fan of US remakes as they make too many concessions and would rather enjoy the original with subtitles; these productions are just different and any attempt to copy the story will simply end up mediocre.

Fantastic movie - A thriller with a touch of compassion

[lebaldevam · 8/10 · 13 November 2017]

Fantastic movie with a very different story. The only wish I had was that Morin should not have been caught by the Police in the end. It was heart breaking. I was only 12 or 13 (don't remember) when this movie was being played on TV every week. I have never seen such a movie since. France is the only place where such movies can be made.

This TV series : the greatest program in my tender age

[mef0970 · 10/10 · 27 September 2009]

Good evening! I would like to tell you that this french series has always been marking my memory since 1977.I saw it twice thanks to M6( a younger French channel).I have always remembered the climate of the story, the attractive music , the suspense that reigns from the beginning to the end and the fabulous actors'play.I would like to find a copy of this TV -series but I know that TF1 has never commercialized it. I was surprised to read other comments in English because it was a french production but there may be an English version. I am only interested in the french one.Moreover, one of the actors( Daniel Auteuil) is my favorite star.I have discovered him in that series before he acted in films.

Thanks a lot for your attention.

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[jwoge · 30 January 2010]

I saw this series back on danish TV in the late 1970'ies and I (or rather, my teen-age sister) was intrigued by the appearance of a young and intense Daniel Auteuil. However, the whole story seemed very familiar to me, much like Régine Desforges' La Bicyclette Bleu resembles "Gone with the Wind". The crime novel "Nineteen Red Roses" by Torben Nielsen, 1973, contains the exact same plot, with the rather simple substitution of a bottle thrown off a plane by a hit-and-run driver with company. In Denmark, going on a fun plane ride would have been regarded as something from another planet in the seventies. The novel was quickly scripted and the film (same name) appeared in danish movie-houses in 1974. I should mention that I do not know if the aforesaid novel has a (french?) predecessor.