Maurice Ronet is the art director for Jean Servais' magazine. He is married to Mylène Demongeot. Servais wants her. He torments Ronet at work, offers her a couple of million francs. Ronet goes to his house, and when he sees Servais leaving his house, he follows him and kills him. Only it's not Servais. That's when his real troubles begin.
Maurice Cazeneuve's is a film noir of the middle and upper classes of French society, where respectable men have base passions which their money and power allow them to exercise freely... a dark world that recent news stories about Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein show us to still the one we live in. It's certainly drier than most French noir, but still shot in that glistening, shadowy light that mocks beauty, and which turns justice into a matter of luck.
Maurice Cazeneuve's is a film noir of the middle and upper classes of French society, where respectable men have base passions which their money and power allow them to exercise freely... a dark world that recent news stories about Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein show us to still the one we live in. It's certainly drier than most French noir, but still shot in that glistening, shadowy light that mocks beauty, and which turns justice into a matter of luck.