It's probably just coincidence that I caught up with this just at the time when the movie version of Mamma Mia is hitting the Multiplexes. Mia is, of course, based on the movie Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, in which Gina Lollobridgida allowed three GIs to think each was the father of her daughter conceived during WW2 and even more sportingly allowed all three to contribute to the raising of the daughter. In this movie we get the dark side of that scenario for it seems like Isabelle Adjani's mother was gang-raped by three men some nineteen years previously and now she's out to find the trio and deal with them accordingly. This is fairly dark for Jean Becker, son of the great Jacques, who enjoyed well deserved success with much lighter, nay, sentimental fare on the order of Les Enfants du Marais, Effroyable Jardins and recently Dialogues Avec mon jardinier. The reviews posted here tend to be mixed and one poster who invariably agrees with me and/or vice versa was decidedly averse. I feel the mistake is in comparing this to Chabrol/Hitchcock etc instead of viewing it in isolation as it were where it entertained me at least.
Review of One Deadly Summer
