Elric has just enough meal money to purchase a pear, and, if he wants to buy a woman a drink, must steal off to the pawnshop to hock his watch.
Sucking on a cigar, and kicking back a stiff one, Elric's (Jacques Dutronc) fixated on his next big gambling haul, which he inevitably loses back to the indifference of the roulette wheel.
Elric's routine is upset by a call girl (Bulle Ogier) sick of getting gypped by her pimp, and a depraved fellow gambling addict (Kurt raab) intent on scamming the house -- "The cheat is a continuation of gambling by other means."
No one can save Elric except maybe himself, but by movie's end he's careening toward murder or suicide. It's a pretty grim portrait.
I hadn't been aware of the easy-on-the-eyes Dutronc, and discovered on Wikipedia that he's a famous French singer. Definitely worth viewing is his youtube video "Il est cinq heures, Paris s'eveille."
Sucking on a cigar, and kicking back a stiff one, Elric's (Jacques Dutronc) fixated on his next big gambling haul, which he inevitably loses back to the indifference of the roulette wheel.
Elric's routine is upset by a call girl (Bulle Ogier) sick of getting gypped by her pimp, and a depraved fellow gambling addict (Kurt raab) intent on scamming the house -- "The cheat is a continuation of gambling by other means."
No one can save Elric except maybe himself, but by movie's end he's careening toward murder or suicide. It's a pretty grim portrait.
I hadn't been aware of the easy-on-the-eyes Dutronc, and discovered on Wikipedia that he's a famous French singer. Definitely worth viewing is his youtube video "Il est cinq heures, Paris s'eveille."