TEN DAYS WONDER (La Décade Prodigieuse) (1971) - ♦♦

Directed by - Claude Chabrol

 

Written by - Paul Gégauff, Eugéne Archer, Paul Gardner (based on a novel by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee)

 

Starring - Orson Welles, Marlene Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins

 

 

 

"After a man wakes up bleeding in a hotel in Paris, he calls his old doctor friend and invites him to his father’s mansion. There, the doctor realises his friend is having a passionate affair with his father’s young wife, and is being blackmailed by a mysterious individual. Chabrol’s thriller uses an unnecessarily distant and cold approach which makes the film hard to watch and care for. Overall, it is a waste of a great cast and far from being one of the best and most engaging as well as intelligent and clever films by the French filmmaker."

 

 

Thriller, France/Italy