A taut thriller that keeps you guessing and a small cast of excellent actors is a great recipe for an absorbing night's entertainment.
Alain Delon who in his lifetime has played a multitude of characters gives a good restrained performance as a defence lawyer (Charles Dunand). His client is a strange young man with psychopathic tendencies who since the age of 12 has held a terrible secret. Now living alone in a somewhat rambling apartment with dark stairways Frédéric (Manuel Blanc ) is ever conscious of a secret which if disclosed could condemn him.
Frédéric, it is revealed, has a daily task to attend to, an important task if he wishes to retain his freedom. Thanks to his grandfather who made it all possible.
Confining himself to an upper floor of the apartment he spends time watching the comings and goings of the populace through a telescope. This peeping Tom latches on to a girl on a balcony some streets away. It is not difficult for him to seek her out.
One feels at times that all the characters are in danger particularly the lawyer to whom he reveals his devastating secret with a promise to kill him if he ever uses the evidence against him. What follows is an unimaginable revelation.
Manuel Blanc has appeared in many films. He is definitely the star here giving an interesting and somewhat creepy but compelling performance
Alain Delon who in his lifetime has played a multitude of characters gives a good restrained performance as a defence lawyer (Charles Dunand). His client is a strange young man with psychopathic tendencies who since the age of 12 has held a terrible secret. Now living alone in a somewhat rambling apartment with dark stairways Frédéric (Manuel Blanc ) is ever conscious of a secret which if disclosed could condemn him.
Frédéric, it is revealed, has a daily task to attend to, an important task if he wishes to retain his freedom. Thanks to his grandfather who made it all possible.
Confining himself to an upper floor of the apartment he spends time watching the comings and goings of the populace through a telescope. This peeping Tom latches on to a girl on a balcony some streets away. It is not difficult for him to seek her out.
One feels at times that all the characters are in danger particularly the lawyer to whom he reveals his devastating secret with a promise to kill him if he ever uses the evidence against him. What follows is an unimaginable revelation.
Manuel Blanc has appeared in many films. He is definitely the star here giving an interesting and somewhat creepy but compelling performance