(be warned - spoilers!) Derivative love-triangle yarn (even one of the characters describes it as "banal" at one point), but with some novel twists: the cheated-upon husband not only assumes a fake identity and blackmails the illicit couple for the fun of it, but later he decides to frame the lover as being the blackmailer himself! There are some well-executed gimmicks (like the near-wordless opening ten minutes; as if to compensate perhaps, the rest of the film is overly talky), and a very good performance by Gerard Oury, who is better known (to me, at least) as a director. Top-billed Jeanne Moreau has the secondary role here. **1/2 out of 4.
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