A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his adulterer, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
The ambition is bracing, but critical hindsight obscures how exciting Malle’s noir thriller is on its own terms.
Its constituent parts are great, but just don't come together to make a coherent and satisfying movie.
Louis Malle's supremely stylish New Wave thriller combines Miles Davis's music, Henri Decae's wonderfully evocative black-and-white cinematography of Paris and plenty of close-ups of a young Jeanne Moreau looking very anguished.
A brilliant, preposterous slice of noir suspense.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Wednesday March 19, 2014, until Thursday March 20, 2014. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
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