Edmond T Greville was nothing but a beginner when he made the most risqué movie ( the Office Catholique Du Cinéma forbad the movie to their flock at the time ) of his career ; some of his previous works may have predicted such a work (who relegated " et Dieu créa la femme ,in which Christian Marquand already co-starred as one of Bardot's lovers ,to kindergarten) :"remous" "le port du désir" and mainly "le diable souffle" .
"Le diable souffle" almost entirely took place in a house on an island (in the middle of a river),almost cut off the world, where a surgeon , escaping from the Spanish dictatorship wound up;"remous" ,in the thirties tackled a taboo subject :impotence!
Unlike many movies about shipwrecked , there 's no real danger on the island; they have found plenty of tinned food ,and there's game and even she-goats on the place ; probably due to the presence of another shipwrecked ,who wrote a diary ; another weak point :although there are two French ,one English and one Italian (born in Tripoli) ,there's no problem of languages .
But it does not matter,for the story focuses on the characters ,a hunk and three babes (one of the girls is a mentally disordered person );it's a fantasm come true : and as they do not really struggle for their life,sex comes to the fore ;and it might be their doom ;told in voice over by Christian Marquand ("le diable souffle" used the same device to introduce its character),slowly but inexorably , the relationships deteriorate ; intimity is impossible on a tiny island ,and the story becomes some kind of lesson in survival ...Who will survive?