At the beginning we are not really sure what is going on although we are sure that the cinematography of Pierre Lhomme is wonderful and the dialogue and directing by Alain Cavalier is great. Starting in a car with Jean-Louis Trintignant one of his colleagues and Romy Schneider we imagine that there is something going on with the men. It is a small space but we think that something terrible is going on and that she is a little drunk and tries to work it out, the same as us. Just in those little moments and the three together it is sparkling. Is this a noir or maybe some Nouvelle Vague? Further on we find that maybe these are right-wing terrorists and Trintignant in the middle of it and later on it is Henri Serre his old childhood friend but a pacifist. At the same time Schneider is wonderful and jolly and sad, in love and out and on as Trintignant can be rather nasty. This is like a thriller and the narrator will tell us about the political turmoil of the 60s and there will be violence but then there will even be some sort of duel and eventually some romance.
Review of Le combat dans l'île
