L'amour en question (1978)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

André Cayatte

Writers:

André Cayatte (writer)
Jean Laborde (dialogue)

Release Date:

18 October 1978 (France)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot:

Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspects his young...

Plot Keywords:

Innocence | Murderess | Murder Suspect | Murder Trial | Murder By Gunshot

Cast

Annie Girardot	...	Suzanne Corbier
Bibi Andersson	...	Catherine Dumais
Michel Galabru	...	Le procureur
Michel Auclair	...	Philippe Dumais
Georges Géret	...	Le commissaire Lachot
Dominique Paturel	...	Maître Rhune
John Steiner	...	Tom Hastings
Sylvie Favre	...	Mme Ventoux
David Langton	...	Sir Geoffrey
Jacques Morel	...	Le Président
Ronald Adam	...	Le juge anglais
Vernon Dobtcheff	...	Peter, le consul anglais à Nice
Florence Giorgetti	...	Gisèle Polmi
Michael Gough	...	Sir Baldwin
Colin Mann	...	Ramsay

Also Known As:

Question of Love (International: English title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Alpes Cinéma

Do women have an intuition?

This was the last great movie by the French director André Cayatte. The movie has some resemblance with "Touch of Evil (1958)" but it lacks its dramatic construction. The scene in the English Court with Tom Hastings (John Steiner) on trial is at the edge of the non-serious. Annie Girardot playing Suzanne Corbier is certainly a match and an equal of Marlene Dietrich but her story is not so convincing. How can she as an superintendent be so sure of the innocence of Catherine Dumais (Bibi Andersson), wife of the architect Dumais? Is her female intuition so strong? The tension in the court-room is also not at such a height that one remains nailed in his chair. A supplementary problem is that the two judicial systems of France and England are involved which can lead to confusion. But Cayatte knows the art to catch your attention even when the story is banal and without interest.