L’Ombre d’une chance (1974)

L’Ombre d’une chance is a French film first released in 1974, directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky.  The film stars Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marianne Eggerickx, Jenny Arasse, Robert Benoît and Agnès Desroches.  It has also been released under the title: Shadow of a Chance.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


Having just turned forty, Mathias decides to give up his well-paid job as an electronics engineer and start a new, less predictable life as a dealer in second-hand goods.  His young wife Sandra seems to approve of the change and the freedom it brings them, in particular freedom from the constraints of a humdrum bourgeois life.  Returning home one day after a journey, Mathias and Sandra find that Mathias’s son Michel and his girlfriend Odile have taken up residence in their home.  Students, Michel and Odile take an immediate interest in Mathias’s unusual lifestyle and wonder if this extends to free love.  As Odile manoeuvres to start something with Mathias, Michel forces his attentions on Sandra, creating a rift between father and son that cannot end well...

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