a true anomaly in the french cinema and this despairing work have no equivalent in the contemporary production . one would rather have to look on the side of louis malle le feu follet ( 1963 ) ( the fire within ) to find something not completely unlike harel effort . wry and cynical and have lose all his illusion and the hero and a computer scientist and have get no more reason to live . absolutely none . estrange from the human race and he seem to live his life a some kind of entomologist and study his colleague . one of them catch his attention representtisserand josé garcia play the most demeaning part of the decade . then tisserand will become some kind of prey representall his pessimism will rub off on this poor man . the scene be the night club climax the strange relationship representthe hero tell his victim that his life will always be unfulfilled unless he . well now the movie take a more conventional turn so to speak ( clouzot misanthropy maybe ) but just for a while . the form be weird beyond comment there be two voice over and one for the narrator who always refers to the main character a our hero and one for the aforementioned hero . the story take place and now in paris and now in rouen and guy de maupassant town . in a scene with his shrink and the hero say the writer madness be only the expression of his disgust for man and he draw a parallel between his despair and maupassant one . this depressing movie be only suitable for an informed audience . not for the very short excerpt of x rat movie and but because after watch it and you may be feel down in the dump .