As part of Panorama Europe 2019, the Museum of the Moving Image presents
Alan Cavalier’s
Le combat dans l'île as a sidebar screening to
Emily Atef’s
3 Days in Quiberon.
Romy Schneider is at her best as the wife of an industrialist and right-wing extremist played by
Jean-Louis Trintignant, in this rarely screened thriller from the height of the French New Wave. A jazzy noir that is set against the political turmoil of the early 1960s, Cavalier’s film is stunningly photographed by the great
Pierre Lhomme (best known for such films as Jean-Pierre Melville’s
Army of Shadows and Jean Eustache’s
The Mother and the Whore).
Le combat dans l'île
France, 1962, 104 min
Directed by Alain Cavalier
With Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant
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