"A chacun son enfer" (everyone has his cross to bear) is a horrible story,in which a mother discovers that ,after the worst (her daughter is kidnapped,then killed) ,there can be something even worse.You do not believe me?Well see yourself.Annie Girardot gives an over-the-top performance which never gives the audience any respite ,beginning with her scene at the radio station where she urges the abductors to have pity on her child.
There's a strange similarity between Girardot's character and Sophia Loren's in Cayatte's "Verdict" (1974).But here enough is enough:the plot becomes some time obscene and the sordidness of the situation is depicted with no regard to propriety.Nuance had never been Cayatte's forte ,but here he goes too far.Whereas former works were strong pleas against death penalty ,miscarriages of justice and innocent people's plight,this one has no other purpose than to provide the audience with cheap thrills.
There's a strange similarity between Girardot's character and Sophia Loren's in Cayatte's "Verdict" (1974).But here enough is enough:the plot becomes some time obscene and the sordidness of the situation is depicted with no regard to propriety.Nuance had never been Cayatte's forte ,but here he goes too far.Whereas former works were strong pleas against death penalty ,miscarriages of justice and innocent people's plight,this one has no other purpose than to provide the audience with cheap thrills.