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THE SWINDLE (RIEN NE VA PLUS) Send This Review to a Friend
Director Claude Chabrol being an icon of the French New Wave, any film that he makes merits special note. Alas, "The Swindle," while as smartly filmed as we expect from him, is pretty thin fare. One certainly can't fault the actors. Isabelle Huppert and Michel Serrault are fascinating to watch as a pair of con artists who get in over their heads when a scheme gets complicated and pits them against ruthless opponents.
But the basic premise is a tired one, a slight variation on so many scam films of a similar nature. By the time the action that veers between Switzerland and the Caribbean, the machinations, the violence and the resolution have run their course, one is left with very little except a passing entertainment artistically not worth our time or Chabrol's. A New Yorker Films release
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