Le Matelot 512
1984 Drama
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Starring: Dominique Sanda, Jacques Penot, Bruno Cremer, Laure Duthilleul, Michel Piccoli |
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Summary
Max has great ambitions for a career in the French navy. His enthusiasm impresses
his Commandant, who takes the young sailor under his wing. Max repays his superior’s
generosity by first mating his housemaid, Colette, and then his wife, Mireille.
The months pass and Max learns that Colette is pregnant with his child. Max is
torn between the two women, but the seductress Mireille proves more forceful at winning
him back…
Critique
Attractive camera work and pretty locations cannot disguise the fact that this is a tacky
piece of melodrama. The over-reliance on voice-over narration merely reinforces
the film’s many weaker points – lack of dramatic tension, painfully wooden
acting, uneven narrative, etc.
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