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Actors: Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Lola Albright, Sorrell Book
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Joy House |
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René Clément cowrote, with the novelist Charles Williams, and directed JOY HOUSE (Les Félins) in 1964. Superb musical score by Lalo Schifrin.
Pursued by the employees of the American mob boss whose wife he made love to, Alain Delon is hired as a chauffeur by an extremely wealthy widow who lives with her young cousin in a fancy mansion on the French Riviera. Soon Delon realizes that this woman Barbara tries to seduce him and that she's hiding in the house her lover with whom she murdered her late husband two years before. Her secret intention is to leave France with her lover who will have, at that moment, taken the identity of the chauffeur Delon. No future seems to be written on Delon's forehead as the mob men get nearer and the younger cousin Melinda fall in love with him.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Joy House |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- criminals (shown sympathetically) on the run
Blackmail & Seduction?
Yes
Lover is...
- criminal/bad doer
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- servant
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Dumb
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
Is this movie based on a
- book
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