Film Screening: Serie Noire December 11, 2008

(THRILLER STORY, Alain Corneau, France 1979, 116 min., French/subtitles)

Frank, a 30-year-old loser (Patrick Dewaere, in a memorably volatile performance), falls for enticing 15-year-old Mona and the two plot together to kill Mona’s aunt for her hidden stash of cash. This steamy and intense thriller was adapted from a novel by the masterful American pulp fiction author Jim Thompson, whose other writings inspired the films The Grifters, The Getaway, and After Dark, My Sweet. Members admitted free.

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