5/10
Chet Baker and Benazeraf
11 October 2022
As a reviewer noted, Le concerto de la peur is more a series of set pieces and images than a plotted story. Baker's music is independent of the action and doesn't create an atmosphere or emotional cues like most soundtracks. It's as if the sound department just played a record just to have a music soundtrack. Still, it's worth watching just to hear Baker's work. The gangster war is done in a clumsy yet oddly naturalistic way--except for Yvonne Monlaur and Michel Lemoine making out in the woods next to dead gangsters and a burning car.

Yvonne Monlaur was best known for her starring roles in Anglo-Amalgamated's Circus of Horrors and Hammer's Terror of the Tongs and The Brides of Dracula. It was a surprise to see her bare-breasted a few years later in this film but then again, it's Benazeraf. Regine Rumen is used too sparingly as is Sylvie Breal. No one went to see this film for Michel Lemoine who was terrific at playing criminals, crazy guys and aliens.
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