Le secret (1974)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.4/10   

Director:

Robert Enrico

Escritores:

Francis Ryck (novel)
Robert Enrico (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

9 octubre 1974 (France)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Suspenso

Plot:

A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities...

Plot Keywords:

Secret | Authority | Escaped Prisoner | On The Run | Farmhouse

Comentarios de los usuarios:

What lies beneath

Reparto

Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	David Daguerre
Marlène Jobert	...	Julia Vandal
Philippe Noiret	...	Thomas Berthelot
Jean-François Adam	...	Claude Vandal
Solange Pradel	...	Greta
Antoine Saint-John	...	Gardien
Michel Delahaye	...	Le Médecin
Maurice Vallier	...	Bertram
Frédéric Santaya	...	Homme oiseaux
Jean-Claude Fal	...	Le Forestier
Patrice Melennec	...	Gendarme
Pierre Danny	...	Chef commando

También conocida como:

Il segreto (Italy)
El secreto (Spain) [es]

Duración:

102 min

País:

France | Italy

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Not Rated

Compañía:

Président Films

What lies beneath

"Le secret" was overshadowed by Robert Enrico's blockbuster "Le Vieux Fusil" released the following year.I have always thought that that movie -also featuring Noiret-was largely overrated.

"Le Secret" is a different matter:it's a return to mystery,irrational,and madness ,tendencies Enrico had displayed in his first(and best)work "Au Coeur de La Vie" (1963).It is far from being as stunning though.It's too long.In its first part,the story drags on and on.Fifteen minutes could have been easily edited out,the story would not have suffered for it.

It was the time of paranoia in political movies.In the wake of "Conversation" and "The parallax view" lots of FRench directors jumped on the bandwagon.There was Jacques Deray and "Un Papillon sur l'Epaule" ;Yves Boisset and "Espion Lève-toi" ;Jean-Claude Tramont and "Le Point de Mire" ;and Robert Enrico and "Le Secret" .All those films deal with a huge conspiracy which may or may not exist.

Enrico 's movies has good assets :his three leads are adequate ;a disturbing prologue (and a symmetrical epilogue);and characters who change : in the last third,we are not sure that Trintignant's paranoia or would be mythomania has not corrupted his "normal" companions.

The military intervention complete with paratroopers and tanks is a bit too much but it adds to the offbeat atmosphere of the film and it reminds us of Enrico's anti-militarism (already obvious in "La Belle Vie" (1964)).

"Le Secret" is a flawed but interesting work.