Wonderful earlish Claude Chabrol picture; 1960
Mixture of messing about and suspense. Low camera, lots of close ups. Fast film stock. Fast pans from the low position. Quite a bit of cutting about. Use of sound changes, moves to silence, for the underwater and the climatic scene. Combined with the close-ups has a great atmosphere.
Wonderful feeling of freedom around the monkey house, and the delivering of lines in a silly way. And that feeling that what is closest could be worst. This is not just cynicism; the happiness is genuinely that. Amazing speed of a change of styles; romance, comedy, almost horror, all segue into each other not jarringly but smoothly
There are so many styles here, romance (kissing framings) from old Hollywood, and a clear general relation of group dynamics and paranoia from ‘Paris Nous Appartient’. Males nasty, there is love, but constantly trying to undermine. Childish and simply nasty.
Terrific early new-wave picture.
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