Les Yeux cernés
1964 Crime / Thriller
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Summary
When Vollmer, the owner of a sawmill, is shot dead in a small Austrian
town, there is no shortage of suspects. Friedrich, the inspector
leading the police investigation, learns that Vollmer, a tough and
ruthless man, was hated by just about everyone, including his estranged
wife. Not long after her arrival in the town, Madame Vollmer
begins to receive anonymous letters from someone who promises to reveal
to her the identity of the killer in exchange for a large sum of
money. The widow immediately feels threatened and confides her
fears in her husband’s former manager, Franz. But, Madame
Volver’s anxiety soon turns to paranoia and she becomes convinced that
it is Franz who is her enemy...
Review
In common with many of Robert Hossein’s directorial efforts, Les Yeux cernés is a film
that is stylish, highly evocative of its period, but lamentably
lacking in substance. Even with the combined acting talents of
Hossein, Michèle Morgan and Marie-France Pisier, the film fails
to convince, essentially because the plot is so ludicrously transparent
that you have to be a comatose dimwit not to work out the identity of the killer
and the blackmailer within the first ten minutes. The film’s
only real interest is the imaginative way in which it is shot and
edited, which manages to convey a mood of mounting oppression and
paranoia, although this would clearly have had much greater impact if
more effort had gone into refining the script.
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