Solo (1970)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 83m
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Cast: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Denis Le Guillou, Henri Poirier, Sylvie Bréal
Synopsis:
A jewel smuggler covering as a violinist on board ship returns from South America to find his brother engaged in terrorism. As he desperately tries to catch up with him to avert another atrocity, he is irresistibly drawn into becoming an accomplice.
Review:
Mocky's cynical 'policier' harnesses an old Western plot to post-1968 disillusionment, as anarchists who consider that the confrontation of old France and new radicalism did not go far enough resort to massacring the representatives of plutocracy. Mocky himself plays the elder brother, who has made peace with the world and enjoys the comforts of petty crime, while pouring scorn on the youthful idealism of his sibling. Ironically, he all but takes over as man of action, and the two never actually meet face to face. With the bitter-sweet whimsy of its Moustaki soundtrack accompanying much toing and froing around the Parisian suburbs, the film moves at a pace, leaving you constantly guessing where it is going next, and revealing an unhappy nation of 'mouchards' and misfits.
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 83m
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Cast: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Denis Le Guillou, Henri Poirier, Sylvie Bréal
Synopsis:
A jewel smuggler covering as a violinist on board ship returns from South America to find his brother engaged in terrorism. As he desperately tries to catch up with him to avert another atrocity, he is irresistibly drawn into becoming an accomplice.
Review:
Mocky's cynical 'policier' harnesses an old Western plot to post-1968 disillusionment, as anarchists who consider that the confrontation of old France and new radicalism did not go far enough resort to massacring the representatives of plutocracy. Mocky himself plays the elder brother, who has made peace with the world and enjoys the comforts of petty crime, while pouring scorn on the youthful idealism of his sibling. Ironically, he all but takes over as man of action, and the two never actually meet face to face. With the bitter-sweet whimsy of its Moustaki soundtrack accompanying much toing and froing around the Parisian suburbs, the film moves at a pace, leaving you constantly guessing where it is going next, and revealing an unhappy nation of 'mouchards' and misfits.
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 83m
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Cast: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Denis Le Guillou, Henri Poirier, Sylvie Bréal
Synopsis:
A jewel smuggler covering as a violinist on board ship returns from South America to find his brother engaged in terrorism. As he desperately tries to catch up with him to avert another atrocity, he is irresistibly drawn into becoming an accomplice.
Review:
Mocky's cynical 'policier' harnesses an old Western plot to post-1968 disillusionment, as anarchists who consider that the confrontation of old France and new radicalism did not go far enough resort to massacring the representatives of plutocracy. Mocky himself plays the elder brother, who has made peace with the world and enjoys the comforts of petty crime, while pouring scorn on the youthful idealism of his sibling. Ironically, he all but takes over as man of action, and the two never actually meet face to face. With the bitter-sweet whimsy of its Moustaki soundtrack accompanying much toing and froing around the Parisian suburbs, the film moves at a pace, leaving you constantly guessing where it is going next, and revealing an unhappy nation of 'mouchards' and misfits.