Double Agents (1959)
5/10
Drear Duet
20 July 2008
Warning: Spoilers
As the previous poster has noted this bears all the hallmarks of a Theatrical two-hander and the lion's share of the 80 minute running time features two strangers, one of each sex, in a hut in the middle of WW11. Actor-director Robert Hossein (the man) enjoyed something of a vogue around the time of the new wavelet without espousing the new waveleteers anti-film techniques. For four years he was married to the actress Marina Vlady (the woman) and in a similar way to Henri Decoin (married for a while to Danielle Darrieux) he featured her in his films - though hardly in the same league as Decoin-Darrieux. Here he tries for an enigmatic approach; after meeting in the hut, falling instantly in love, consummating that love on a convenient bed the duo have to decide if they are both spies, if they are on the same side, if one or both is 1) English or 2) German. The main problem they face is getting the audience to care. Vlady made exactly one hundred films none of which were terribly distinguished, her sister Odile Versois also made films and Vlady married four times most notably to the 'wild' man of Russian rock Vladimir Vysotsky. Worth a look.
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