The Uninvited (1969) User Reviews

They don't make them anymore like this

[gerritbrand · 9/10 · 21 October 2014]

What a great movie this is. I saw it on TV5. I liked the story, co-written by Tonino Guerra, the guy who also (co-)wrote a lot of Michelangelo Antonioni's movies and that is something you notice. The whole movie breaths the atmosphere of an Antonioni-movie. Strange that De Seta didn't make much more films for the cinema but started working for television. Anyway, I liked this movie. As I said the story but also the way it was put on the screen in that slow sixties manner. So you can really enjoy the beautiful images, cars, landscapes, people. This is cinema the way they don't make it anymore. Show don't tell. No psychology, just images and you as the spectator can draw your own conclusions about the characters on the screen.

Two for the road.

[dbdumonteil · 24 June 2017]

Joanna Shimkus's career was short ,but few have really forgotten her "burial at sea" in Robert Enrico's "Les Aventuriers"(1966).If she had not given up acting when she married Sidney Poitier,she would have certainly found her place in the European cinema.

"L'Invitata" is a fine road movie with two symmetrical scenes which depicts similar situations .Anne is upset when her boyfriend (Perrin)brings an English friend for the night (actually we do not really know whether they had an affair).In the last scene with François (Piccoli) and his wife (Clotilde Joano) it's Anne's turn to feel like an intruder ;when she's left alone by the sea on the beach of Saintes Maries De La Mer,she has understood that the whole world does not turn around her.

During the long travel from Paris to the south of France ,she and François have met people who may have helped her see the world in a different light: the baker and his delicious bread,fresh from the oven,Viennese pastries ,the wedding Anne seems to attend from the outside.The episode of the sculptor is more conventional ,but ,as far as François is concerned, it prepares the ground for the scenes in his house.

A lovely film.

Undercover gem

[searchanddestroy-1 · 4 April 2024]

I just discover them little film. I had never heard of it before, despite the presence of Michel Piccoli and Joanna Shimkus, after her performance in HO! And LES AVENTURIERS. She is far better here than in the two previous movies, though she was also brillant too. The difference here is that she nearly steals the show here, she shares it with Michel Piccoli. She is sensitive, poignant, despite the fact that you wonder all long this movie where it really leads at. But the question is not that important, it doesn't necessarily needs an answer. Only the atmosphere and dialogues, the relationship between Piccoli and Shimkus are really worth. Forget the rest. SPOILERS SPOILERS The last minutes of the film, where the situation for Shimkus' character is exactly the same, but in reverse - SHE is now the intruder - is very unexpected and brilliant. Ironic. It would have been better if THE WIFE - Piccoli's wife - had left, instead of Shimkus.... Then the wife would have been entirely in Shimkus' position at the beginning of the film. See?