Ten Days' Wonder (film)
Ten Days' Wonder (French: La Décade prodigieuse) is a 1971 murder-mystery film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins, Marlène Jobert and Orson Welles. It is based on the 1948 novel Ten Days' Wonder by Ellery Queen, with the detective renamed Paul Régis. It is the fourth film that Welles and Perkins appear in together after The Trial in 1962.[2]
Reviewing a revival of the tilm in 2018, Richard Brody wrote in The New Yorker "… it’s a minor masterwork of freakazoidal cinema.… Chabrol orchestrates the grandiose theatrical tension with giddily audacious cinematography…. He reveals ravenous depravity beneath pious displays of benevolence and warns of the dangerous marriage of money and art."[3]
Cast
- Anthony Perkins as Charles Van Horn
- Michel Piccoli as Paul Régis
- Marlène Jobert as Hélène Van Horn
- Orson Welles as Théo Van Horn
References
- ^ "La Décade prodigieuse (1971) - JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (1972-04-27). "Screen: Chabrol Misses:' Ten Days' Wonder' Has Orson Welles in Lead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
- ^ Brody, Richard (November 29, 2018). "Ten Days Wonder". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
External links
- Ten Days' Wonder at IMDb
- The film on DailyMotion [1]