While her husband embarks on a political campaign, a rich bourgeoise from Lyon has an adulterous fling with a young lover. The lover, who has a habit of drug-taking, dies in her arms. Fleeing in shock, the woman does not yet realize that this affair will come back to haunt her in a most unexpected way...
"Tout contre elle" is a modest psychological thriller, notable mainly for the presence of an ambiguous and disquieting blackmailer. The rich bourgeoise is being hounded by a blackmailer who asks not for money, but for trust, affection, attention - now here's a creepy idea... There are also elements of social satire. You'll notice how the politician who wants to improve the lot of his fellow citizens lives in a giant modern house that screams money. Liberty, equality, fraternity... The politician also proposes to resolve anyone's problems, while being unable to comprehend what's happening right under his nose.
The movie is not bad - it's too competently made for that - but neither is it particularly outstanding. One cannot help but wonder what would have happened if the same intrigue had been treated by a Hitchcock, a Polanski, a Chabrol... A rating of six stars seems about right, here.
"Tout contre elle" is a modest psychological thriller, notable mainly for the presence of an ambiguous and disquieting blackmailer. The rich bourgeoise is being hounded by a blackmailer who asks not for money, but for trust, affection, attention - now here's a creepy idea... There are also elements of social satire. You'll notice how the politician who wants to improve the lot of his fellow citizens lives in a giant modern house that screams money. Liberty, equality, fraternity... The politician also proposes to resolve anyone's problems, while being unable to comprehend what's happening right under his nose.
The movie is not bad - it's too competently made for that - but neither is it particularly outstanding. One cannot help but wonder what would have happened if the same intrigue had been treated by a Hitchcock, a Polanski, a Chabrol... A rating of six stars seems about right, here.
