Le Matelot 512
1984 Drama   
Director: René Allio
Starring: Dominique Sanda, Jacques Penot, Bruno Cremer, Laure Duthilleul, Michel Piccoli
 
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…

Credits
  • Director: René Allio
  • Script: René Allio, Emile Guinde (novel)
  • Photo: Christian Guillon, Emmanuel Machuel
  • Music: Georges Boeuf
  • Cast: Dominique Sanda (La Commandante), Jacques Penot (Max), Bruno Cremer (Le Commandant Roger), Laure Duthilleul (Colette), Michel Piccoli (Récitant), Tchéky Karyo (Le balafré), Paul Allio (L’aspirant Denis), Christiane Cohendy (Lina Colomba), Charles-Roger Bour (Lieutenant), Christine Laurent (Paillette)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 100 min



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Review
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.

© James Travers 2004



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