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SAFETY CATCH

Cran d'arrêt

1970 • FR HMDB
January 14, 1970

A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed since the suicide of his partner. But in the dead woman's handbag, an undeveloped film is discovered by the doctor, who decides to investigate the young woman's alleged suicide.

Directors

Yves Boisset

Cast

Bruno Cremer, Renaud Verley, Marianne Comtell, Raffaella Carrà, Mario Adorf, Claudio Gora, Marina Berti, Agostina Belli, Vanna Brosio, Jean Martin
Thriller Crime Mistero

REVIEWS (1)

AC

As Chianese

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Politically engaged and controversial director, Boisset, ventures into this film with a thriller, and decides to take on a task too big for his cinematic portfolio: the film is indeed the adaptation of the most beautiful book by Giorgio Scerbanenco, an Italian crime writer of great talent. Dr. Duca Lamberti (Bruno Cremer) after serving a few years in prison for causing the death of an elderly patient, as soon as he is free tries to restart his profession and accepts to follow a young alcoholic. One day the young man reveals to the doctor that he met a girl who was then mysteriously killed... Duca Lamberti begins an investigation that will lead him into the world of Milanese prostitution in the years following the Italian economic boom. In the cast, Mario Adorf and a dazzling Raffaella Carrà stand out, but in the end the product is only damaged by the screenplay: too lacking from a narrative point of view and rich in nude and masochistic scenes that, frankly, could have been avoided. To be seen not before having read the book.