Amazon.com video review:
Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as the owner of a cigarette factory on an
African
island, and a single man who advertises for a wife and, voilà, gets
Catherine Deneuve. Problem is, however, she isn't quite what she seems in
this 1969 drama by François Truffaut, taken from a Cornell Woolrich novel
called Waltz into Darkness. Suspicions lead to deception and deception
to murder, and along the way Belmondo's character, despite everything,
continues to fall in love with his enigmatic prize, which is really the
point of the film: the protagonist, almost as if he were willing himself
into a noir myth, seems determined to fall under the spell of a
romantic delusion. A fine effort by Truffaut that is the best of his
mid-period pulpy, suspense films (along with The Bride Wore Black and
Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me). --Tom
Keogh
