One Must Live Dangerously

November. 11,1975      
Rating:
5.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves"...

Annie Girardot as  Léone
Claude Brasseur as  Richard Diquet
Hans Christian Blech as  Ritter
Sydne Rome as  Lorraine
Roger Blin as  Murdoc
Daniel Ivernel as  Badinget
Gérard Séty as  Courtade
Roland Lesaffre as  Edouard Lory
Muni as  Célestine
Jacques Rispal as  Le régisseur du cabaret

Reviews

Solemplex
1975/11/11

To me, this movie is perfection.

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Matialth
1975/11/12

Good concept, poorly executed.

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Console
1975/11/13

best movie i've ever seen.

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Francene Odetta
1975/11/14

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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dbdumonteil
1975/11/15

"One must live dangerously" was then a laudable attempt to take the French thriller off the beaten path and it does ,in a way ,as it predates some aspects of the genre in the eighties.The two principals have much screen presence and they are the main reason to watch it today,for hindsight reveals some of the contrivances :first of all,the screenplay is muddled ,and the backbone of the plot (the search for a super diamond "Le Grand Mogol" ) gets lost in a series of murders ,Brasseur's few conquests and Girardot's good cooking .The director tries to build an unusual atmosphere and the scene in the hospital is Polanski-like but the tongue-in-cheek playing does not always serve the intention.The scene of the orgy for chic people complete with masks will remain some of that of Kubrik's "eyes wide shut" (which of course was still to come in 1974)and most amazing thing ,there 's also a poem which goes like this :"eyes shut wide open..."

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