The Damned Lovers (1952)
A waiter, Paul, likes detective novels as he identifies with the characters, before becoming a sought-after offender himself. He flees with his group and his girlfriend Jackie
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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
"In spite of its title (=the doomed lovers),"Les Amants Maudits " has nothing romantic ,no Amour Fou ,no chemistry between the two leads ,who have fallen into oblivion (Robert Berri was nonetheless a memorable cop opposite Raymond Souplex in "Identité Judiciaire.") A waiter is sick and tired of his routine life and of the humiliations .He goes for broke and becomes a gangster,the public enemy.A woman follows him,not because she loves him -at least at first sight- but because she's dreaming of luxury (she goes as far as to pretend she is a countess in the casinos).A poor man' s "Bonnie and Clyde" or "Gun Crazy" ,this isn't ,cause the man is a mean macho and the woman double crosses him;it is impossible to be moved by the last scene after all we have seen before.