Le Jeu avec le feu / Giochi di fuoco / Playing with Fire. 1975.
Playing with Fire is a 1975 French-Italian comedy-drama film and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant. One of his most commercially successful films, down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel.
Alain Robbe-Grilletâs mid-career comedy âLe jeu avec le feuâ can politely be described as an intensely self-aware parody. I prefer to call it a piss-take of Italian gialli. What you see in the film is not necessarily the truth, and characters are also not what they claim to be. To add to the chaos, actors return to play different characters during its run-time â perhaps this is a Freudian examination, perhaps it is reminding us that everything, like the film, is make-believe, or perhaps the characters themselves are two-faced.
The film begins with banker Georges de Saxe (Philippe Noiret) receiving a demand for ransom from a couple of visiting baddies for something they havenât achieved yet â theyâre yet to kidnap the bankerâs precious daughter Carolina (AnicĂ©e Alvina), whoâs still safely ensconced in her room upstairs.
In order to protect her, Georges hires detective Frantz (Jean-Louis Trintignant) whoâd been telegraphed to the audience in advance as working for the kidnappers. Frantz suggests housing Carolina for her own protection at a place the kidnappers would least bother to look â a high-class brothel run by Erica von Eigher (Martine Jouot). He introduces the place to an innocent Carolina as some kind of a âclinicâ for women suffering from âexhaustionâ.
We can easily see where this plot is heading from here, but then again, we may not. Whatever the case, it wouldnât matter. For most of its duration, the film is an unbridled indulgence in fantasised masochism, a pastime Robbe-Grillet had never hidden or apologised for throughout his personal life. We see thugs bundle away in public view young maidens from night clubs, morning jogs, and even from wedding ceremonies. As Carolina strolls through doors in Ericaâs mansion to discover torrid happenings Ă la Alice in Wonderland, the film teases the audience through Carolinaâs implied and faux sexual awakening. It gets ridiculous towards the end to such an extent that a character even complains to camera that the typist girl had messed up the filmâs script sequence..!
What is noteworthy however is the straight face with which some of the biggest stars in French cinema play their respective mixed-up roles â they surely relished their outing here. The set designs and shot compositions are done with the greatest care and attention to detail that for a moment, you might think youâre watching a Visconti or Bergman.
Uncut version.
Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Anicée Alvina, Sylvia Kristel, Agostina Belli, Serge Marquand, Charles Millot, Vernon Dobtcheff, Jacques Seiler, Michel Berto, Christine Boisson, Marc Mazza, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Nathalie Zeiger, Joëlle Coeur
France, Italy, 1975.
Language: French, Russian.
Format : MKV / 1024x440
Duration : 1h 48 min
File Size : 1,45 GB
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