Robert Enrico was a damn good director, very cary concerning the adaptation from novels. Here it is question of a Francis Ryck's book, a story about people living more or less in seclusion in the deep countryside, away from the world and all its tragedies. Special atmosphere books and also characters studies. Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert and Jean Louis Trintignant are perfect in the roles, very close to the book characters. It is gloomy, dark, without any moral at all. It is disturbing, not for all audiences. Francis Ryck was against the government's unseen power to monitor everyone.
Review of The Secret
