Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Italy
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Melancolie Mau is a lonely woman on the French seaside who falls victim to a horrific rape, but she manages to turn the tables and kill her attacker. She chooses not to tell anyone and dumps the body, but it comes back to haunt her when a U.S. colonel arrives, mysteriously armed with full knowledge about her ordeal. However, he seems to have his own agenda, and it may concern Melancolie's absent husband.
- military officer
- corpse
- american
- roadblock
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charles Bronson
Col. Harry Dobbs
Marlène Jobert
Mélancolie 'Mellie' Mau
Gabriele Tinti
Tony Mau
Jean Gaven
Inspector Toussaint
- Jean Piat — M. Armand
- Jill Ireland — Nicole
- Corinne Marchand — Tania
- Annie Cordy — Juliette
- Ellen Bahl — Madeleine Legauff
- Steve Eckardt — U.S. officer
- Marika Green — Hostess at Tania's
- Jean-Daniel Ehrmann
- Yves Massard
- Marc Mazza — The Passenger (Mac Guffin)
- Marcel Pérès — Station Master
- Directed
- René Clément
- Written
- Sébastien Japrisot
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 103 ratings
- Studio
- Greenwich Film Production, Medusa Produzione, Taurus Film, AVCO Embassy Pictures
If this stayed with you
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