Before becoming "the father of hard -core pornography in France " ,José Bénazéraf made a bunch of would be intellectual cheap films noirs ,each one lousier than the one before ; like in his so called "masterpiece" "Jo Caligula -Du Suif chez les dabes" , this director made several attempts to establish himself as "meaningful" "deep" ,film noir philosopher ,but his screenplays are not original enough to justify the banality of his "insights" ; dubbed in English ,the actors might delude the viewers into thinking they are champions of underplaying ;:in the orginal version ,it's a disaster : acting is downright amateurish -with the exception of Kalfon- ,verging on ludicrous :Yvonne Monlaur's dreary delivery is so abysmal she's a contender for the worst French actress of all time ;no wonder her career did not survive the sixties.
After the pretentious intellectual warning ,it takes 13 minutes before the cast and credits appear (which ,in a 72-minute flick, is quite original); the story is the umpteenth tale of drug-traffickers who take a hostage ,a good girl (there's also a bad one ,mind you ,and both do not get on very well); jazzy music by Chet Baker is the only artistic feature of a dud.
And please ,don't compare it with Samuel Fuller : the contemporary "the naked kiss",for instance , had a mind-blowing screenplay and a powerful actress (Constance Towers );these directors are worlds apart.
After the pretentious intellectual warning ,it takes 13 minutes before the cast and credits appear (which ,in a 72-minute flick, is quite original); the story is the umpteenth tale of drug-traffickers who take a hostage ,a good girl (there's also a bad one ,mind you ,and both do not get on very well); jazzy music by Chet Baker is the only artistic feature of a dud.
And please ,don't compare it with Samuel Fuller : the contemporary "the naked kiss",for instance , had a mind-blowing screenplay and a powerful actress (Constance Towers );these directors are worlds apart.