morrison-dylan-fan Gathering up 100 French movies to watch over 100 days,I was thrilled to find that a very kind IMDber had sent me a creepy-sounding French Film Noir co-written/directed and starring Robert Hossein,which led to me getting ready to find out what the night is for.The plot:Walking off the beach, Pierre Menda gets offered a lift from a mysterious women.Parking up,the women takes her clothes off,and has sex with Menda.With having had sex with her,Menda decides to ask the women what her name is (!),which leads to a gun being put against his face. Interested in finding the women,Menda looks round the area and finds the car parked outside a mansion.Entering the mansion,Menda finds it to contain two sisters,the wheelchair bound Eva Lecain and her career Hélène.Finding himself drawn into their complicated relationship,Menda begins to suspect that the sisters are keeping something secret from him.View on the film:Rolling the role away from being a charity case, Marina Vlady gives an exquisite performance as Eva Lecain,whose angelic face Vlady cracks to unveil the femme fatale laying in wait.Giving up everything to take care of her sister, Odile Versois gives an excellent performance as Hélène,by Versois walking a fine wire which puts all of the weight of the years of care on Hélène's shoulders,and also steps on her sinister Film Noir side. Entering the Lecain mansion, Robert Hossein gives a rugged performance as Film Noir loner Menda,by Hossein initially giving Menda a peacemaker shell which starts to crack as Menda begins to doubt how much he can trust the sisters.Locking the trio up in the mansion,director Hossein & cinematographer Robert Juillard cast a blistering Film Noir atmosphere over the title,which unleashes a white-hot sun that burns the shadows of the sisters and Menda.Backed by a playful score from his dad André,Hossein displays a masterful eye for detail,thanks to Hossein having the sisters linger in the background like a ghost haunting this Film Noir chamber.Splashing Frédéric Dard's crisp pulp novel on the screen,the screenplay by Hossein and Daniel Hortis slices brittle melodrama with an impending Fim Noir doom.Keeping the body count at 0,the writers exchange gunfights for explosive Film Noir dialogue,which is centred around giving the fragile relationships a psychological depth,due to the arrival of outsider Menda opening everything that has remained silent between the Lecain,as they each find out that night is not for sleep.

melvelvit-1 More "Riviera noir" as Robert Hossein directs and stars in a suspenseful "romantic" thriller that predicts the dysfunctional family dynamics of Robert Aldrich's WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? a half-decade later.Canned TV personality Pierre Menda blew his last dime at the Nice casinos and hits the road on foot where he's offered a ride by a mysterious blonde in a white car and mink coat. He can't make out her face in the shadows but it doesn't matter once she pulls over and opens her coat to reveal that's all she's got on. They have sex and when it's over, she kicks him out of the car and tries to run him down but luckily Pierre manages to get the woman's license plate number before she speeds off into the night. This clue eventually leads him to a waterfront mansion where two blonde sisters live, one demure and the other vivacious despite being confined to a wheelchair. Neither one seems likely to be the wanton that raped him but curious nonetheless, he accepts their invitation to stay the night and it's not long before the sisters offer him a job, a place to live, and their love. Uh oh.A throbbing jazz score and a bitterly ironic twist at the end top off what looks to be a reel family affair: director Hossein adapted his friend Frédéric Dard's pulp novel and co-starred with his wife, Marina Vlady, and sister-in-law Odile Versois. His father, André Hossein, composed the music.

peaceriver This is one of the best noir thrillers I've ever seen. Hypnotic and disturbing, it almost reminds me as much of Carnival Of Souls or a William Castle film--only this has better performances, a stronger script. Hossein has crafted a masterwork here. I was glad to finally get a DVD from santa flix on googly.A drifter gets picked up by a strange blonde one night in the streets of Nice, France. She seduces him then dumps him. To add insult to injury she tries to run him down with her car before speeding way. He manages to get the number off her license plate. This leads him to a house where two blonde sisters live. Either one could be the woman he seeks, and either one could be out to do him greater harm.This plot description doesn't do justice to this eerie psychological thriller. All three leads give excellent performances.

lionel.willoquet A man looks for the nymphomaniac who nearly crushed him, one evening, on a road of Provence. "Night Is Not for Sleep", interpreted and realized by Robert Hossein, old friend of Frederic Dard in the city, an alarming suspense with Marina Vlady and Odile Versois. Panting psychological thriller, adapted by Frederic Dard's novel.