"Midi-Minuit"(the expression) has two different meanings in French,forgotten today:
1)continuous showings in the movie theaters from noon to midnight,which allowed the audience to watch the movie up to five times .
2)the name of one of the first Parisian theater showing erotic movies. The connection with the movie I'm writing about escapes me,I fear;there are some erotic scenes (very mediocre ) but not more than in the average French movie of the early seventies in the wake of May 68.
"Midi-Minuit" has one asset:Daniel Emilfork,the strangest sinister-looking guy in the French cinema,but once more in a dud.Sylvie Fennec's moment of glory was short-lived (circa 1970)and the rest of the cast remained unknown ;their amateurish playing ,a desultory screenplay ,the Nouvelle Vague vices (cult of youth and of bodies,filming on location -the director don't even know how to use the splendid
landscapes of the Provençal Garrigue-,wealthy people with inflated egos doing nothing but contemplate their navel,or making "art",or doing bad things (human sacrifices,black magic,who knows?).
"Midi-Minuit " looks like sub-Vadim stuff;and Roger Vadim,we've seen better !
