How many Simenon 's novels have been transferred to the screen? Probably more than you can think of for there were already plenty of them in the thirties.Some were even remade(Duvivier's masterpiece "Panique" was remade as "M.Hire" ).
In 2004,it's funny to see Simenon's characters using computers.This movie owes a lot to its two actors:the always reliable Darroussin and Carole Bouquet who in fact has only a supporting part,her male co-star being on the screen twice as long as her.
A couple whose marriage seems on the rock hit the road .They are to pick up their children in their holiday camp.This is a road movie ,the action taking place around a highway between Paris , Tours and Poitiers and ending in Chatellerault.The man has become a heavy drinker cause he knows his wife does not love him anymore .She disappears in the night.He is told she's taken a taxi to get to the railway station to travel by train.The desperate husband takes a(not very sweet) hitch- hiker aboard .At dawn,it seems that something very horrible happened during the night.
It does not really renew Simonesque adaptations (and I must admit I could name at least ten films better than this one,even if I did not include the excellent Gabin/Maigret/Delannoy films of the fifties) but it's a good film ,depicting a bleak inhuman highway ,high anxiety (Darroussin gives at least ten phone calls in ten minutes),and proof positive that from evil,something which looks like love can be born again.
In 2004,it's funny to see Simenon's characters using computers.This movie owes a lot to its two actors:the always reliable Darroussin and Carole Bouquet who in fact has only a supporting part,her male co-star being on the screen twice as long as her.
A couple whose marriage seems on the rock hit the road .They are to pick up their children in their holiday camp.This is a road movie ,the action taking place around a highway between Paris , Tours and Poitiers and ending in Chatellerault.The man has become a heavy drinker cause he knows his wife does not love him anymore .She disappears in the night.He is told she's taken a taxi to get to the railway station to travel by train.The desperate husband takes a(not very sweet) hitch- hiker aboard .At dawn,it seems that something very horrible happened during the night.
It does not really renew Simonesque adaptations (and I must admit I could name at least ten films better than this one,even if I did not include the excellent Gabin/Maigret/Delannoy films of the fifties) but it's a good film ,depicting a bleak inhuman highway ,high anxiety (Darroussin gives at least ten phone calls in ten minutes),and proof positive that from evil,something which looks like love can be born again.