If you are looking for a film to show your kids about the folly of gambling, then this film is worth your time--though I honestly think the film is trying to say the opposite! If you want to enjoy a film, then keep looking. The bottom line is that this morality tale is interesting at first but after a while it's relentlessly tedious--as the characters are about as likable as bed bugs!
Claude Mann plays a simple clerk. A coworker has a serious gambling addiction and manages to convince Claude to accompany him to the casino. Claude wins and gets gambling fever. With his winnings, he's able to go on a vacation to the Riviera. There, he meets a pathetic woman (Jeanne Moreau) who has abandoned her family in order to gamble. The two hook up, have sex and gamble again and again and again. As long as they are winning, they are in love. But winning, like their love, is shallow and fleeting. And by the end, you just want them to go away....
This really is all that there is to the film. The majority of the film shows them gambling. And, I couldn't care less about gambling, I couldn't care less about these unappealing characters. It really became a chore to watch after a while and although reasonably well acted and crafted, it's not particularly enjoyable or enlightening. I didn't need to see this film to know that gambling addicts are pathetic.
By the way, the theme music from this film is god-awful. Too intense and too invasive and doesn't at all fit the film.
Claude Mann plays a simple clerk. A coworker has a serious gambling addiction and manages to convince Claude to accompany him to the casino. Claude wins and gets gambling fever. With his winnings, he's able to go on a vacation to the Riviera. There, he meets a pathetic woman (Jeanne Moreau) who has abandoned her family in order to gamble. The two hook up, have sex and gamble again and again and again. As long as they are winning, they are in love. But winning, like their love, is shallow and fleeting. And by the end, you just want them to go away....
This really is all that there is to the film. The majority of the film shows them gambling. And, I couldn't care less about gambling, I couldn't care less about these unappealing characters. It really became a chore to watch after a while and although reasonably well acted and crafted, it's not particularly enjoyable or enlightening. I didn't need to see this film to know that gambling addicts are pathetic.
By the way, the theme music from this film is god-awful. Too intense and too invasive and doesn't at all fit the film.