The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970)
- 1970
- ·R
- ·105 мин
Секретарша едет на машине своего босса на отдых в Средиземное море, странным образом повторяя путешествие, в котором она не участвовала, и ее узнают люди, с которыми она раньше не встречалась.
Когда обнаруживается тело.
- Актеры
- John McEnery·Oliver Reed·Samantha Eggar·Stephane Audran
- Направленный по
- Anatole Litvak
- Жанр
- Drama
- Язык
- French
- Cтрана
- France·USA
- Director
- Anatole Litvak
Coherence and sense make a lot of watching any film. Without it, whether from a narrative or thematic standpoint, or both, there's nothing being communicated and thus barely anything worth watching.
This is already the second bad screen adaptation of a magnificent book. Well, to enjoy even the original story, you must either remember or imagine the times without cell phones and developed forensics investigation -- this seems to be a problem for some reviewers here.
This is not a movie I would recommend to EVERYONE, but a certain kind of viewer would definitely enjoy it immensely, mostly those that are already familiar with the colorful, psychological (and very Freudian) mystery-thrillers popular in Continental Europe in the 1960's and early 70's--movies like "The Frightened Woman", "Girl on a Motorcycle", "La Piscine", "All the Colors of Darkness", "Footprints on the Moon" and even UK/American films like "Repulsion" or "Psycho" fit in here a little. These films all are based on the old-fashioned idea of women as hysterical, mentally unstable creatures who are both easily manipulated by others and never too far from a complete psychotic break.
