Cute long-haired French youth walks around thinking about suicide. I'm not giving anything away. The opening shot is newspaper headlines saying he killed himself. Another headline says that the "suicide" was murder.
Like Bresson's other movies with actors delivering their lines unemotionally. It worked quite well. More directors should give it a shot. It called attention to itself when he says "He told me off," to describe a calm, lifeless conversation he had earlier.
France always looks like a hell hole in the movies. In this, a cop knees the young fellow in the back while he's being questioned by police.
Released the same time as Star Wars and Smokey and the Bandit.
Available on The Criterion Channel.
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