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Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Claudio Carvalho After seducing the wife of a powerful mobster in New York, the bon- vivant wolf Marc (Alain Delon) travels to the French Riviera. However the mobster orders his gangsters to travel to France and bring Marc's head to him. They kidnap Marc but he succeeds to flee. Without any money, he hides in a mission for poor people. While donating food and supplies to the mission, the wealthy widow Barbara (Lola Albright) and her niece and housemaid Melinda (Jane Fonda) meet Marc and she hires him to be her chauffeur. He moves to a castle-like mansion and believes Barbara has hired him to have sex with her while Melinda falls for him. But Marc decides to investigate the death of Barbara's wife and discloses a hidden secret and that his life is in danger. What will Marc do?"Les félins" is a suspenseful neo-noir film by the fantastic French director René Clément. The screenplay has many twists and two femme fatale with a great story. The only but is the adorable and irresistible Jane Fonda in the role of Melina. Marc (Alain Delon) is a handsome man but how could he resist to the sexy Melinda (Jane Fonda) in the top of her beauty? Better of a less sexy and beautiful actress in this role. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Jaula Amorosa" ("Love Cage")

John Patrick Moore (jpm-onfocus) A story of twists and turns with a sticky sexual link. Jane Fonda and Alain Delon are reason enough to enjoy this French noir but there is more. Lola Albright for instance. Wow! She's a retro futuristic femme fatale. Then Rene Clement, the director of "Purple Noon" knows how to keep us on the edge of our seats without sacrificing that elegant center that makes the whole think work beautifully. "Joy House" was made a few short years after Delon starred in Luchino Visconti's "Rocco And His Brothers" This were Delon's superstar years and he uses the power of his stardom to confuse us and tease us to death. I'm not going to spoil it for you so I don't intend to reveal it but it has one of those endings that's not just fun and clever but totally unexpected. A very enjoyable semi-precious gem.

MartinHafer "Joy House" (aka "Les Félins") is a French suspense film that really sneaks up on you. That's because about 70% through the film, I was rather bored. However, late in the picture, everything came together so well--so perfectly--that you can't help but really admire the film.This film begins with a group of paid killers capturing a schnook (Alain Delon) who has apparently ticked off the boss. However, despite beating the snot out of the guy, he's able to escape and desperately looks for a place to hide. He wanders into the lives of two ladies (Jane Fonda and Lola Albright) and they help him hide and give him a job as a chauffeur. This is a bit strange and it's all chalked up to the ladies being full of love of the poor and destitute. However, through the course of the film, Delon picks up on some clues that PERHAPS these women aren't such wonderful benefactors--and he is being kept their for nefarious reasons. However, if he leaves, the killers will find him and dispatch him. What's next?! In many ways, this film is very reminiscent of a later Delon film, "Diaboliquement Vôtre". Both have wonderful endings and both involve Delon being held in a mansion due to ulterior motives. So, in a way, this later film is a bit derivative--but still good. Both, however, feature AMAZING endings--deliciously twisted and very satisfying.By the way, one of the killers is played by Sorrel Booke--the guy who later played 'Boss Hogg' on "The Dukes of Hazard". Also, the DVD case really makes "Joy House" look like a terrifically sexy film. It has its moments, but really is a suspense film not a film with a lot of skin.

jotix100 Marc a French playboy has committed the ultimate sin, he beds the wife of a criminal lord in New York. With his injured pride as a cuckold, the man orders to bring him his head on a silver platter so he can enjoy his revenge and to satisfy his ego. Trouble is Marc has decamped New York and now is playing on the French Riviera. The men sent to get him locate him, but Marc is able to escape, finding refuge among the poor being fed at a local church, where he is not going to be found.Marc fates changes when Barbara, one wealthy American woman comes to the mission where he has been staying accompanied by her cousin Melinda, whom she uses as her personal maid. Through Melinda, Barbara offers Marc a job at her rich villa as a chauffeur. Thinking it is the best solution to his problems, Marc accepts the invitation, but little does he know about what awaits him at Barbara's palatial home which hides a well kept secret, one in which Marc will play a principal role."Les felins" is based on an American pulp fiction paperback, written by Day Keene, an obscure author whose work is hardly known these days. The great Rene Clement knew a thing, or two, about making films and saw the potential of this story for his reunion with Alain Delon after their success on "Plein soleil", a triumph of great artistic proportions. Here Mr. Clement worked with Pascal Jardin and Charles Williams in a screenplay that captured the essence of Mr. Keene's novel.Working with the great cinematographer Henri Decae, a favorite of a lot of the New Wave directors, Mr. Clement gets the proper atmosphere for the film. Lalo Schifrin contributed with a jazzy score that serves the movie well. Mr. Clement casting of the two principal female roles went to two American actresses, Jane Fonda, who was starting in French movies, as Melinda, and the wonderful Lola Albright, playing the deceiving Barbara, a woman who is hiding a deep secret. Alain Delon is Marc, the gigolo being sought by the Americans in one of his best screen appearances, in a film long forgotten.The director also brought a few American actors to play the heavies in their unusual style. We see Carl Studer, Sorrell Brooke and George Gaynes among the supporting cast, in a film that should not be missed by fans of the excellent Rene Clement.