Word: lelouch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mouse. A Gallic mystery in which the detective falls in love with the main suspect. Director Claude Lelouch demonstrates his customary flair for textures (of meals, French countryside, character) in one of the year's few adult entertainments...
...Mouse. That Lelouch is at it again! His camera dips and swirls and flip-flops, but it didn't move as much as I did--shifting in my seat. This is a slight mystery made intolerable by technique. Maybe he should have directed Network, and given Cat and Mouse to Lumet...
...someone has managed to succeed in making a decent mystery murder movie this summer--you even wonder "who did it?" until the very end. This film really has everything in it, and is well done to boot. A big time, capitalist-industrialist type is mysteriously murdered and director Claude Lelouch has cleverly thrown enough clinkers into the mystery, including some good leftist twists about the rich and the poor, to make it worth your money...
...Mouse is a dapper veteran detective, Lechat (Serge Reggiani), who goes on a wild chase to discover whether a philandering millionaire (Jean-Pierre Aumont) was indeed murdered by his jealous wife (Michele Morgan). The plot is complex and at times ingenious, but it is mainly an excuse for Lelouch to indulge his romantic reveries. Almost every character in the film falls in love at least once, usually with idyllic effect. The liaisons are delightfully improbable. Antagonists Reggiani and Morgan both carry on with gorgeous lovers half their age before making a beeline for each other; Lechat's daughter (Christine...
...real star of Cat and Mouse, though, is Lelouch. He has taken a vi brant hand to his material, lacing the action with playful flashbacks and trompe l'oeil effects that wittily complicate the narrative's central puzzle. There is even a brief and hilariously titled film-within-the-film that parodies Cat and Mouse's own detective genre. If, in the end, the movie is far longer on charm than thrills, it is simply because the director refuses to hype any of the scary elements of the story. Much to his credit, Claude Lelouch would rather...