I realize now that it is probably the first French film, with the exception of Yves Boisset's RAS, to speak so openly about the war in Algeria. The previous one, in this kind of filming and writing was not a French movie but an American one: THE LOST COMMAND, starring Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet, besides Anthony Quinn. Benoit Magimel gives here one of his best performances ever, as the tenderfoot who changes so abruptly from good towards evil. Terrific.
Review of Intimate Enemies
