Folle à tuer (1975)
Folle à tuer / Mad Enough to Kill (1975)
DVD5 (VIDEO_TS) (from french cable channel) | PAL 4:3 (704x576) | 01:32:34 | 3,05 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (custom added)
Genre: Drama, Thriller | French, Italy
DVD5 (VIDEO_TS) (from french cable channel) | PAL 4:3 (704x576) | 01:32:34 | 3,05 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English (custom added)
Genre: Drama, Thriller | French, Italy
Julie Ballenger has spent the last five years in a psychiatric clinic. Leaving the clinic, apparently cured, she is engaged by a wealthy industrialist, Mostri, to work as a governess to his young nephew, Thomas. The boy is heir to a huge fortune after the recent death of his wealthy parents, in mysterious circumstances. During a visit to a park, Julie and Thomas are kidnapped at gun-point and driven away to deserted quarry. The two hostages manage to escape, but are closely pursued by an armed killer…
IMDB
It's not the first time I'm complaining about the general lack of interest that Yves Boisset suffers from, and certainly not the last.
Boisset directed this amazing thriller with his usual style, every piece of the puzzle being right in its place, an infernal rythm sticking it all together.
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It's the story of Julie (Marlène Jobert), an ex nutcase that's reinserted in society as a guardian angel for the young Thomas, a spoiled brat who appears to be a very rich orphan. As always in Boisset movies, trouble isn't very far ahead and takes the form of a cold blooded Tòmas Milian who kidnaps the child and Julie and asks for a ransom.
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No one is innocent here, except for little Thomas, and nothing is what it seems. The major force of the movie being its casting, the co-production allowing Boisset to use Italian as well as French actors. Jobert is right on spot, Milian refrains from using his usual wide palette of grins (and is given an awful accent in the french dubbed version), and Michael Lonsdale is a decent enough corrupted bourgeois ! Victor Lanoux plays the menacing and simple ex convict, belly pot and sleazy eyes included.
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With an engaging musical score, a simple and effective storyline, and enough plot twists to keep anybody awake, FOLLE À TUER should be released on DVD along with Boisset's finest, in a perfect world.
I've never been disappointed by this amazing director, and I will keep on digging in the slowly fading VHS crates to find more of his masterpieces, that's for sure.IMDB Reviewer
Folle à tuer (1975)
A full decade before Claude Berri’s film Jean de Florette (and the Stella Artois ads it inspired) turned an extract from Verdi’s opera The Force of Destiny into a cliché for French provincial life, Yves Boisset used the same theme to introduce his thriller Folle à tuer - probably with greater effect.
This film, a faithful adaptation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s novel, is a tense, fast-moving thriller-drama, with fine characterisation and a satisfying twist at the end – in short, a perfect example of the French thriller or polar français.
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The film’s strength lies partly in its acting performances – Marlène Jobert is superb as the vulnerable Julie – but also in its plotting and realisation. There is a palpable sense of menace throughout the film, and the chase sequence is brilliantly executed.
However, Boisset’s masterstroke is using Verdi’s music – it seems to fit so perfectly and adds greatly to the atmosphere.
Folle à tuer (1975)
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