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Rider on the Rain
A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.
Release : | 1970 |
Rating : | 6.7 |
Studio : | Greenwich Film Production, Medusa Produzione, |
Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Charles Bronson Marlène Jobert Gabriele Tinti Jean Gaven Jean Piat |
Genre : | Thriller Crime |
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A Disappointing Continuation
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
I saw this movie two or three times in the theater in 1971, when I was ten years old. My brother was obsessed by the movie and he used to take me. Now, after 38 years I saw it again on DVD, and it evoked some memories! I had still remembered since then some of the memorable scenes, like opening the fist of the rapist's body to find the button, and Charles Bronson giving Marlene Jobert the button. It is a great movie. One of the few earliest thriller/romance of its type (post-Hitchcock) to come out. The chemistry between Charles Bronson and Marlene Jobert is great, and I liked the walnut-throwing metaphor. It is a classic!
At the time ,Clement's career was slipping ,slowly but inexorably.This thriller is not "plein soleil" (the first version of "the talented M.Ripley )or even "les félins" ,by a long shot.After the twenty first minutes which promise great things ,the screenplay peters out and we 're left with Marlene Jobert's grimaces and Bronson's tricks.Pretension has showed up too:quoting Lewis Caroll is not enough to create mystery and suspense.It's the supporting cast that walks away with the honors:Annie Cordy,who tackled here her first dramatic part ,is very convincing and Corinne Marchand ("Cleo de 5 à7" star) plays a small part too.It was bad but René Clément was to sink lower with his three last works ("la maison sous les arbres" "la course du lièvre à travers champs" and "la babysitter") ,a sad and tatty end for a director who gave us ,outside "plein soleil" ,such gems as "forbidden games" or "les maudits".
Charles Bronson is featured as the lead actor in this movie, but he's in it for a very brief period of time. The story could have been good, but stupid nonsense things happened making the movie lose its credibility. I absolutely hated this movie and was overjoyed when it ended. This movie should be avoided at all costs. Too long and drawn out. And more importantly - POINTLESS!!!
This movie, simply put, is Charles Bronson at his absolute best, and proves that he does indeed have the ability to handle drama/suspense. He delivers an extremely convincing performance which is, arguably, his very best. It is too bad that this movie is as obscure as it is, because if it had been produced state-side and been more mainstream, he might have enjoyed a much more critically-acclaimed career, deserving of a lifetime achievement Academy Award. However, this is not the case and die-hard Bronson fans get to enjoy this little gem while the rest of the world misses out because they were too busy shunning the unfairly typecast Bronson.