Jean Claude Brisseau is not a prolific director. He takes his time to get back to his steps. Watching this hard, exhilarating, unstoppable proof of his talent you can clearly see that he needs to empty him in each frame, each second of his features. The outstanding scene in which Sylvie Vartan (recovering the best Catherine Deneuve), is paying for her blackmailing is the milestone of his career. The sexual tension, the rotten feelings, the laconic acceptation of a dark destiny... I obtain a great pleasure viewing a "non genre director" doing "film noir", like he was Chabrol, but trying to pass over the topics and penetrating the obscure angles of his absorbent plots.
Review of L'ange noir
