PimpinAinttEasy Robert Enrico switched off his tape recorder. He just stood there for a few moments. Morricone's score was devastating. The maestro had delivered all right. The title track had blown him away. It began with trickling water drops. Followed by dissonant sounds. But soon a melodious piano could be heard and it was beautiful when the violins kicked in. The director thought he could have a drink now. He could already imagine using this score in his movie. Suddenly he was excited. He could already imagine using this score at the end of the movie. But he had to make sure he wouldn't get carried away with the score. The score could take over the movie.Enrico poured some whiskey and sat in his chair. It was a nice plot based on the Francis Ryck novel. A man escapes from a prison. He hooks up with a strange couple in rural France. He tells them that he harbors a terrible secret about the state. The couple take him in and go out of their way to save him from the authorities. Their relationship becomes complex. The man on the run is inevitably attracted to the beautiful woman who is a redhead. He develops an intense friendship with the husband. He thought about Marlene Jobert from that Godard film. She would do as the redhead. The portly Philippe Noiret as the husband who is glad to be cuckolded. Maybe Trintignant as the man on the run. There was always something very enigmatic about Trintignant. He was unforgettable in Il Sorpasso.Both the prison the man escapes from and the house the couple occupies would look the same. Both made of stone. It would be hard to tell their interiors apart.The film would be up to its neck in paranoia. Right from the time the man escaped. He could already imagine this terrific scene where a man runs up a flight of stairs as Trintignant takes a lift. There would be paranoia between the threesome as well. The woman would get jealous and paranoid as the husband and the man on the run grew closer.There would also be a sepia tinged dream sequences when Trintignant remembers the time he was tortured. This would heighten the sense of paranoia. Of course, the film would not be anything like those American thrillers that expressed paranoia about their Government.The whiskey began to hit Enrico. He wondered if the film would get noticed. Would it be remembered? 40 or 50 years from now? Would there be watchable prints of the movie? Would anyone watch it in 2016? Who knew? (8/10)

info-627-664439 Robert Enrico's 1974 "Le Secret" was obviously supposed to be one of those paranoid thrillers from the seventies and the marvel is at how simply it was done. In that sense you can say it was very well done. But to look at it more carefully, up against other more complex paranoid thrillers, the person who is "it"" must have a clearly, for our sake as the world/society will ultimately benefit without Intelligence making up our minds for us that an incredibly life changing "secret" can not be revealed and all who know it or possibly could stumbled upon its being able to shed light on our perspectives, other than what Intelligence wants us to be kept in the dark about, the person on the run should know where to take the secret for the best possible chances of it doing any good. In Robert Enrico's film, that avenue is not explored, and the film becomes a rather ordinary TV movie of the week with fine actors like Jean-Louis Trintignant as "David" (our agent); Marlene Jobert as "Julia" (the woman) (in a fine performance once again) and Phillip Noiret (as her husband "Thomas," friend of mankind and understanding and trusting of the agent as mankind should). Written by Robert Enrico (who previously directed the very fine "The Adventuriers" (1970)) with Pascal Jardin (dialogue) and from the novel "Le Compagnon Indesirable" by Francis Ryck, with Etienne Becker as director of photography and Ennio Morricone providing the score, the film is still rather devastating. In the day of the complex paranoid thriller, the simplicities of "Le Secret" are likely to be forgotten, and that, too, is sad.

lionel.willoquet A mysterious prisoner goes on the run, claiming to hold a State secret putting his life in dangers. An innocent couple get caught up in his flight, and the series of adventures which follows. The tension builds to a crescendo and the sense of mystery prevails throughout this paranoiac thriller, in which the reason of State takes an implacable turn.

DickVG The rude nature of the South West of France alongside the plot of the movie where three well known french actors give the best of themselves in a story that is taken of reality of those years of the 70's. Sublime shots and dialogues, good acting work, a movie that has no need to any Hollywood action and big budgets in order to entertain. If you like France and its mentality, then this movie is for you.