TL:DR On a rainy new year's eve, gritty Detective Gallien (Lino Ventura) grills gruesome child-killer suspect (Michael Serrault).
Brilliantly avoids being stagey, wordy or melodramatic.
Even without the double (triple? See below) twist at the end, GAV would be a terrific film about the breaking down of a murder suspect. I'll only concern myself with my theory of the actual explanation for SPOILER Madame Martinaud's (Romy Schneider) suicide at the end. That's the second twist. She hated her husband's 10-year (romantic, to that scumbag) relationship with her niece, enough to frame him for murder. Would her desire to cling to 'status' be enough to force such despair on her when her plot was exposed? To me, there was more.
Is it that the body in the car was Camille? Madame M and Jabelin had conspired to murder her and frame her husband - who didn't care any more because he knew what they'd done. The only question is how they knew each other, a child killer and a lawyer's wife, but I'm not sure he wasn't the brother, oh I need to watch it again!
The ambiguity in this movie is deliberate and delicious; deal with it.
Brilliantly avoids being stagey, wordy or melodramatic.
Even without the double (triple? See below) twist at the end, GAV would be a terrific film about the breaking down of a murder suspect. I'll only concern myself with my theory of the actual explanation for SPOILER Madame Martinaud's (Romy Schneider) suicide at the end. That's the second twist. She hated her husband's 10-year (romantic, to that scumbag) relationship with her niece, enough to frame him for murder. Would her desire to cling to 'status' be enough to force such despair on her when her plot was exposed? To me, there was more.
Is it that the body in the car was Camille? Madame M and Jabelin had conspired to murder her and frame her husband - who didn't care any more because he knew what they'd done. The only question is how they knew each other, a child killer and a lawyer's wife, but I'm not sure he wasn't the brother, oh I need to watch it again!
The ambiguity in this movie is deliberate and delicious; deal with it.