That Night (French: Cette nuit là...) is a 1958 French crime drama film directed by Maurice Cazeneuve and starring Mylène Demongeot, Maurice Ronet and Jean Servais.Walker-Morrison p.221 It is an adaptation of the 1957 novel Un silence de mort by Michel Lebrun.
It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Chalvet.
Cast Mylène Demongeot as Sylvie Mallet Maurice Ronet as Jean Mallet Jean Servais as André Reverdy Françoise Prévost as La secrétaire Jean Lara as L'inspecteur Toussaint Hubert Noël as Gérald Martin Florence Arnaud as La femme à la lampe Gilbert Edard as François Yves Arcanel as Le dessinateur Marc Doelnitz as Le boute en train Henri Maïk as Le photographe Jacques Dhéry as Le correcteur Françoise Brion as Jeanne d'Arc Claude Bolling as himself
Reception Frédéric Bonnaud called the movie "a caricature of pre-New Wave French cinema" and said "To endure it to the end, you have to love killer dialogue. ... These inanities are spoken with a knowing air, between meaningful silences. They serve as decoration for a banal story of adultery."Quoted in Jean Douchet, Nouvelle vague (Hazan, 1998; ISBN 2850256196), p. 189: «Ce film de 1958 est une caricature du cinéma français pré-Nouvelle Vague. Pour le supporter jusqu’au bout, il faut aimer les dialogues qui tuent. ... Ces inepties sont débitées d’un air entendu, entre des silences lourds de sens. Elles servent d’ornement à une banale histoire d’adultère.»
References
Bibliography Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
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