A tense and contorted thriller with a detective feel to it
Maria Schneider and Sydne Rome in a complex drama, which sees them contrast and mirror one another
René Clement ends his respectable and varied career with a tense, contorted thriller with a detective feel to it, written by Nicola Badalucco (who had already collaborated with Luchino Visconti) and Mark Peploe (screenwriter of Professione: reporter by Michelangelo Antonioni, and Academy Award Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1988, for The Last Emperor). The film depicts a world where fiction and double play dominate the scene, with two female characters that contrast yet mirror one another. Maria Schneider instils her natural grace in the role of the babysitter; Sydne Rome counterbalances her, with a performance infused with hysteria.
A sculptress and a starlet are friends and share a flat together. The young actress has not had any work for a while and is penniless, while her friend works as a babysitter in order to pay the rent. She ends up being kidnapped along with the child she is babysitting, ignorant of the fact that one of the kidnapping gang is her flatmate, who in the end will repent and commit suicide.
A tense and contorted thriller with a detective feel to it
Maria Schneider and Sydne Rome in a complex drama, which sees them contrast and mirror one another
René Clement ends his respectable and varied career with a tense, contorted thriller with a detective feel to it, written by Nicola Badalucco (who had already collaborated with Luchino Visconti) and Mark Peploe (screenwriter of Professione: reporter by Michelangelo Antonioni, and Academy Award Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1988, for The Last Emperor). The film depicts a world where fiction and double play dominate the scene, with two female characters that contrast yet mirror one another. Maria Schneider instils her natural grace in the role of the babysitter; Sydne Rome counterbalances her, with a performance infused with hysteria.
A sculptress and a starlet are friends and share a flat together. The young actress has not had any work for a while and is penniless, while her friend works as a babysitter in order to pay the rent. She ends up being kidnapped along with the child she is babysitting, ignorant of the fact that one of the kidnapping gang is her flatmate, who in the end will repent and commit suicide.
