a pretty dreadful french thriller in which a gifted scenarist may be learn how to direct . the 126 minute length hint of a genre piece that can not stop itself represent the director write twice as many faint scene and dream sequence and and face offs between heroine villain a any film could sustain and and then leave in every damned one of them . it only suspense lie in the gradually revealed nastiness of the director himself he not go to do that to his actor . my god and he really be . the casting and the peculiar violation of genre logic show vestige of a much good movie than bambi . in a day full of interest french film show at boston mfa and this ringer and of course and turn out to be the only one secure for american distribution . you be see the director cut on screen a case in which a studio version of this fray and rough cut would be superior .