Les Félins | Joy House: dir René Clément (1963)

Alan Delon is Marc, a petty criminal on the run from American gangsters, who seeks refuge in a mission for the poor where wealthy widow Barbara (Lola Albright) hires him as her chauffeur and moves him to her Riviera château. Barbara’s niece (Jane Fonda) becomes attracted to Marc, but then it gets complicated: Barbara is hiding her lover Vincent, a bank robber sought by the police for murdering her husband, and they’re planning to murder Marc for his passport … and the gangsters have got wind of Marc’s whereabouts. There are bodies …

The film is satisfyingly twisted, almost film noir in its plotting but defiantly European in style.  It’s in French with English subtitles; the screening will be followed by a discussion with Hind Mezaina (who’s curating this season for AF).

The price incidentally is for non-members; for AF members it’s free.