figueroafernando Review of Riff Raff Girls

Riff Raff Girls (1959)

The successful rififi that no one enjoyed

[9/10 · 14 September 2023]

The prickly human soul, which barely approaches what makes it shine, hurts those around it in its bliss, perfectly crystallizes in the haughty Vicky Berlin, paragon of hidden pride in the simulation of the varietés of "Raison and Co" in which displays the most sophisticated insolence of singing about "l'argent" money, while meandering among the sleepless tables, there is no room in her mental representations of anything that is not the same theme of her melody, money!, placing herself in the I quarreled in the making that forges with Marcel and other henchmen of the Marquis in Paris... but there are complications for Vicky: first the operation, the rancor of her past full of abuse at 15, the lover Jürgen, oh and how can I forget the wuss of the corrupt inspector behind the Capo Bug, the same Bug who wants to snatch the cabaret from Vicky at a low cost while he is preparing to get information from Madame van Steen of the Bank of Belgium where the rififí is taking place. The Pirate, Capo de capos, must intervene so that Bug grants a truce to Vicky and Marcel oero during the bank robbery, the riffraff, Bug betrays everyone and they eliminate Berta and the obedient Jean. Bug arrives with his hit man Luigi and others just when the robbery had already been carried out and Marcel was about to escape with Vicky. The feelings surface in the end in her who realizes what she felt for Marcel but when she descends the long rope with the sack of money. Everyone eliminated everyone, this should be written in the epitaph of each one.