The glum Simon Leotard is a businessman who confronts the greed of the rapacious Lepidon.After the suicide of one of his business partners,Leotard must honor some credence,as the hole created by the late's mismanagement amounts to 600 millions Francs.In his free hours,the businessman meets a girl,Mado.Leotard has some confused aspirations and wishes about his relation with Mado;he is even jealous,in a brutal and harsh way.He falters.Through his mistress,Mado,Leotard finds Reynald Manecca,a disingenuous scorner,convicted in contumacy and able to help him bring down Lepidon. As a result,Mado (who has not a very good opinion about Leotard,whom she considers selfish and incapable of love) looses the man she most liked.
Michel Piccoli does a role that becomes him and that has been his usual employ in some movies:a somehow antipathetic and self-important bourgeois verging on disaster and in a juncture of collapse.Leotard saves his business and manages to find some things about himself (anyway,at least he seems to find out more than is the public able to get from Leotard's way through the financial maneuvers). P's performance in "Mado" is commendable.
I liked the warm colors of this movie.
Mrs. Schneider has a bit part;she got a scene of about 6 minutes.
As a whole,the movie is quite vapid,banal and verbose,not very well narrated;the pace could be improved,the empty scenes could be reduced.Quite bad constructed.The movie would be better if it only kept being a bourgeois plain story about business and women in the life of a lonely man.The title makes a promise that won't be kept.It tells a story about affairs and it pretends that it is speaking about Mado.The movie is heterogeneous and unsatisfactory;above all,it lacks poetry.
The treatment of the psychologies is shallow (but it should not be!) and narrow;it lacks insight and perspicacity.
With two exceptions (Mrs. Schneider,by the sheer intensity and force of her electrifying presence,although her part is that of a dizzy drunkard, and Charles Denner),the characters are quite anodyne,lukewarm and badly written.The story is not well delivered.
Michel Piccoli does a role that becomes him and that has been his usual employ in some movies:a somehow antipathetic and self-important bourgeois verging on disaster and in a juncture of collapse.Leotard saves his business and manages to find some things about himself (anyway,at least he seems to find out more than is the public able to get from Leotard's way through the financial maneuvers). P's performance in "Mado" is commendable.
I liked the warm colors of this movie.
Mrs. Schneider has a bit part;she got a scene of about 6 minutes.
As a whole,the movie is quite vapid,banal and verbose,not very well narrated;the pace could be improved,the empty scenes could be reduced.Quite bad constructed.The movie would be better if it only kept being a bourgeois plain story about business and women in the life of a lonely man.The title makes a promise that won't be kept.It tells a story about affairs and it pretends that it is speaking about Mado.The movie is heterogeneous and unsatisfactory;above all,it lacks poetry.
The treatment of the psychologies is shallow (but it should not be!) and narrow;it lacks insight and perspicacity.
With two exceptions (Mrs. Schneider,by the sheer intensity and force of her electrifying presence,although her part is that of a dizzy drunkard, and Charles Denner),the characters are quite anodyne,lukewarm and badly written.The story is not well delivered.