1961) Le Combat dans l'île/ Fire And Ice
(In French with English subtitles)
THRILLER
Co-written and directed by Alain Cavalier and Louis Malle credited as executive producer. Made in the same tone as the 1960 film called "Breathless" directed by Jean Luc Godard, which centers on Anne's (Romy Schneider) involvement with a jealous husband Clément (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who does not quite know what he does. On one of those days when the cleaning lady was there uncovers something hidden and wrapped in the apartment's closet. After Anne waits for her husband to come home after unwrapping it, it soon turns out that it happens to be a bazooka, who he was going to return it. And after one of Clement's jealous rages in a jazzy nightclub just because she wanted to dance with some old friends, she then leaves him. So instead of returning the bazooka, he then decides to use it and as he happens to be one of few underground French resistance fighters who's against the act of "communism". After a botched job, he then hides out by seeking for a friend's old resort which happens to be an inn that is somewhat isolated. Ann obviously does not like what he is doing and makes him chose. And she builds a rapport with his best friend and law abiding Paul, which is why the English title is called "Fire And Ice". Made during the Vietnam war which part of the reason for the invasion was because the American gov't didn't want to see Vietnam to become a Communist state, this film makes a radical idea into a involving one, much more so than Godard's "Breathless", since the only thing we see the characters do most of the time are frolicking with one another which this film doesn't do a lot of.
Co-written and directed by Alain Cavalier and Louis Malle credited as executive producer. Made in the same tone as the 1960 film called "Breathless" directed by Jean Luc Godard, which centers on Anne's (Romy Schneider) involvement with a jealous husband Clément (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who does not quite know what he does. On one of those days when the cleaning lady was there uncovers something hidden and wrapped in the apartment's closet. After Anne waits for her husband to come home after unwrapping it, it soon turns out that it happens to be a bazooka, who he was going to return it. And after one of Clement's jealous rages in a jazzy nightclub just because she wanted to dance with some old friends, she then leaves him. So instead of returning the bazooka, he then decides to use it and as he happens to be one of few underground French resistance fighters who's against the act of "communism". After a botched job, he then hides out by seeking for a friend's old resort which happens to be an inn that is somewhat isolated. Ann obviously does not like what he is doing and makes him chose. And she builds a rapport with his best friend and law abiding Paul, which is why the English title is called "Fire And Ice". Made during the Vietnam war which part of the reason for the invasion was because the American gov't didn't want to see Vietnam to become a Communist state, this film makes a radical idea into a involving one, much more so than Godard's "Breathless", since the only thing we see the characters do most of the time are frolicking with one another which this film doesn't do a lot of.