L’Amour avec des Si movie storyline. It is dark. A silhouette crosses the wall of the Health prison. Later, driving a D.S., a man with chiseled features listens to the radio announcing the escape of a dangerous sadist; a series of information relating to the playful tone of Europe No. 1 the small daily atrocities; urn eportage of an opinion poll on sadism.
In the morning, he stops in a cafe. A young girl is there, hitchhiking on vacation. The man brings her up. Stop at noon in an inn whose boss, having recognized a report, telephones the police and tries to detain travelers. They narrowly set off again, shortly before the police arrived.
In the evening, they stop at a hotel. The man enters the girl’s room. However, the police arrive at the hostel. They keep watch all night long: their capture must be done in the early morning. where they apprehend the young girl, who is a entoleuse, and let the man go. Suddenly, they are seized with a suspicion; his description resembles that of the sadist. But, when they catch up with him, they learn that the sadist, who is nothing but a double of the first, has been apprehended elsewhere.
The film is a road movie that follows a middle aged man who gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news bulletins warn the population against a recently escaped sadist who is known to prey on young women and children. Lelouch often cuts away from the main story, if only briefly, to parallel events that are not necessarily crucial to the story but illustrate what is suggested by the radio.
L’Amour avec des si (English: In the Affirmative) is a 1962 French film by Claude Lelouch. Though Lelouch had experienced failure with his debut feature Le Propre de l’homme, he managed to gain favourable exposure when the film was sent to be exhibited in Sweden and earned compliments from Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.
L’Amour avec des Si (1966)
Directed by: Claude Lelouch
Starring: Guy Mairesse, Janine Magnan, Jean Franval, Richard Saint-Bris, France-Noëlle, Jacques Martin, Jean Daurand, Joëlle Picaud, Bernard Papineau, Rita Maiden, Jacqueline Morane
Screenplay by: Claude Lelouch
Production Design by: Mario Franceschi
Cinematography by: Jean Collomb, Claude Lelouch
Film Editing by: Claude Lelouch
Music by: Daniel Gérard
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Les Films de la Pléiade
Release Date: June 1964 (Berlin International Film Festival), February 2, 1966 (France)
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