A small town in France called Mérival. A young couple leave their expensive Mercedes in a garage. By a sad coincidence, the car is given back to them before the repairs have been fully completed. The couple drive off happily, not realizing that a rather important part of the car might decide to stop functioning. The couple should be warned as soon as possible - and the same, of course, goes for the young lady they're giving a lift to - but then, which garage owner likes to admit to a mistake of this magnitude ?
Quite a good movie, this one. The black-and-white cinematography is unremarkable - don't expect any visual fireworks - but the story and screenplay are exceptionally clever. On the one hand you get a small group of people wrestling with moral dilemmas, in a twisty and hard-fought battle of duty versus expediency ; on the other hand you get a masterfully choreographed race against the clock, with an unsafe car barrelling along on a series of roads and highways.
In other words : one can cut the suspense with a knife.
And no, I'm not going to tell you if the warning is given, just as I'm not going to tell you about the eventual fate of the car. I'm a reviewer, not a sadist.
Quite a good movie, this one. The black-and-white cinematography is unremarkable - don't expect any visual fireworks - but the story and screenplay are exceptionally clever. On the one hand you get a small group of people wrestling with moral dilemmas, in a twisty and hard-fought battle of duty versus expediency ; on the other hand you get a masterfully choreographed race against the clock, with an unsafe car barrelling along on a series of roads and highways.
In other words : one can cut the suspense with a knife.
And no, I'm not going to tell you if the warning is given, just as I'm not going to tell you about the eventual fate of the car. I'm a reviewer, not a sadist.