That Day

France    Raoul Ruiz

What a surprise this was: a French black absurdist comedy from the mad Chilean Ruiz. And it was funny...or at least amusing. All the way through.

The story involves the deliberate release of a homicidal madman to kill an heiress but, as so often happens...things go wrong. The corpses pile up but she (delightfully played by Elsa Zylberstein) and the crazy guy form an alliance and thwart her evil relatives. Not knowingly but by following their own stars.

She carried the film with her spot-on performance. Too silly and the whole thing would have collapsed. Very nice direction.

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