i pick this up in a cheap dvd bin . i immediately recognize a 1 of 2 movie that i saw when i be a starving ( pretty much literally ) student live away from home for the first time and in 1973 and and couldn not resist pick it up and give it a look and that many year later . a other reviewer have note and the promotion for the movie be pretty and ahem and imaginative . there not a lot of sex ( hardly any and actually ) and very little nudity and any reference to homosexuality be pass and irrelevant and there be no horror other than the horror of murder and violent death by knife and gun ( we need more . ) and and it be not orient towards the supernatural beyond the fact that the villain dabble in black mass there be no otherworldly event and no actual contact with the devil a la rosemary baby or devil advocate . so it really a detective story . the device of track parallel time line do add some suspense and tension ( exactly what do happen to this girl and and will the detective crack the case ) while however and i find that the tension peak somewhere around mid movie and and the trip to the end more or less plod to anti climatic conclusion to both time line . unrealistic ( a i imagine them ) scenes certainly contribute to that plod effect . at one point and amidst wild gunfire and a uniformed policeman tell the arrive detective and he up there and he get one of our men a hostage and and then resume shoot in the general direction . uh and yea . now and there be unexpected pleasure to be work from watch obscure movie now and then and and while i generally be pretty resistant to the oh wow and i have be there effect and i do find the 1972 vintage shot of place jacques cartier and rue st. paul est and well before the resurrection of the area a old montreal to be such a surprise .