Retour de manivelle

Aqueronte72

27 sep 2024

⭐ 6/10

It is the first time, that I can remember, that the devious events of the disastrous plot will seem more original than they really are, and less fun than they really were - both for the viewer and for the marriage of convenience between the industrious Eric Freminger - an alcoholic who was convenient to pay with a good enormous dose of mutual hypocrisy - all the ridiculous stipends of Helene his brand new wife for the simple love that for the beautiful felt, and the beautiful wife lucubrating day by day the thousand ways to make the murder of her husband a simple accident for 300 million reasons of convenient inheritance. And suddenly, before being run over, the third character and for a moment the third in contention, Robert, enters the scene. The alcoholic millionaire thanks him for saving him and takes him to his residence and hires him as a driver, which his wife objects to. Very soon, upon seeing Eric's life insurance policy, Robert understands Helene's dastardly intentions but the alcoholic is fired from the firm. Upon arriving at his lustrous mansion, he informs his wife in front of Robert that he will commit suicide one day but he has changed the millionaire insurance clauses. This changes everything. Eric shoots himself and Helene, with weak courtship and more hypocrisy, cajoles Robert to be her accomplice, for now hiding her husband's corpse in a closet and hiring Jeanne as a maid to be useful as a witness that Eric is still alive. That is to say, the plan is to delay calling the police and so on, but in the meantime even a leonine liquor creditor arrives asking to see the boss. I will put aside how unrealistic it is to suppose that the forensic experts, at the moment the death is reported, will not discover in less than a moment that the deceased has been dead for more than 48 hours, but I will stop at the level of imbecility of a poor person. man who has been sexually brainwashed into believing he is loved by Helene. A schoolboy would realize immediately that he is being tricked by the widow into doing the dirty work - like making the maid fall in love or taking the corpse out of the closet and carrying it at night among crickets to the cliff to throw it into the sea and immediately, alas, the Rolls Royce through the gorge as an accident. It is not strange that Blier has arrived as an inspector in the matter. Not to change, his role is that of a clueless policeman although in the end he does manage to stalk Robert in the car after accidentally killing Helene, when she asked him to hit her so that Physical violence was noted and he left Jeanne for 10 minutes, who, by the way, did genuinely fall in love with Robert. It's a shame, Robert confesses to the accidental crime and it turns out that Robert Montion, the driver, was the beneficiary of the policy, a little gift he left to the person whose life he saved shortly before taking it himself.