Review: "Nude in a White Car"/Toi, le Venin/Nachts fällt der Schleier 1959. Nice
I do not know much about Robert Hossein. I like his baguette-western UNE CORDE...UNE COLT / CEMETERY WITHOUT CROSSES and know that he was a prolific French actor and director, but basically, that's all. That might have to do with the fact that non-"progressive" filmmakers seem to be more likely to be forgotten by the film historians than their politically more active counterparts in some kind of retroactive cancellation. Well. Why not change it? When this little movie arrived on my doorstep, I knew nothing about it either, except that it was a mystery and - well - directed by Hossein (see above). It had an old cert.18 censorship marker, which is intriguing. So let's see. Of all the titles of the film, the US-American is the most honest. This is what the movie is actually about: A Nude Girl in a White Car. "You, the Venom", the French one, is just too ordinary and broad, and the German one, "At night, the veil comes down," is simply wrong, since th...
