The final hours of a suicidal alcoholic out-patient, movingly played by Maurice Ronet. One of the grayest of movies, not just visually (the filthy weather, the charcoal-y photography by Ghislain Cloquet), but emotionally and morally as well. The Satie soundtrack does a lot for the movie, but the movie does as much for him as he for it. Based on the novel by Drieu la Rochelle; directed by Louis Malle. (1963) — Duncan Shepherd
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