Rider on the Rain
Film Comment Selects 2016
February 17 - 24, 2016
The best from Charles Bronson’s European phase, this stylish, small-scale Hitchcockian thriller by the director of Purple Noon sees Bronson as a mysterious American playing cat and mouse with a young woman (Marlène Jobert) who has killed and disposed of the body of a man who raped her.
Smack in the middle of Charles Bronson’s four-year, 10-film stint starring in European productions of variable quality came this stylish, small-scale Hitchcockian thriller from French director René Clément, who demonstrated his flair for tense drama with 1960’s Purple Noon. In the South of France, Mellie (Marlène Jobert) is stalked and then raped by a stranger while her husband is away, and then kills her attacker and disposes of his body. Soon after, a mysterious American (Bronson) who seems to know everything begins a game of cat and mouse with the young woman.
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