Rififí en la ciudad Reviews

"Rififi in the city" is the first adaptation of a novel in the filmography of prolific Spanish director Jesus Franco. With a cast is not devoid of stars, like great actors Jean Servais and Fernando Fernán-Gomez, the film was shot in a studio outside Madrid and Levantine, obeying the order of Francoist censorship convert the Barcelona of the novel in an imaginary hispanoamerican city.

The movie is commendable attempt to unite his passionate admiration for Orson Welles's cinematography with different drives his own filmmaker. This faithful obedience to Charles Exbrayat French novel it is based, which implies an additional merit. It is a type of "Polar" in Spanish, with absorbing atmosphere, well recreated despite its obvious limitations in their financial budget. Failure as usual in the work of Jesus (Jess) Franco hit a staging style sometimes laughable, implausible as to jump on the script and archetypal situations and characters too or fanciful. In this respect, the role played by Agustín Gonzalez is quite a psychiatric clinical case. To all this, highlight the positive treatment of the different stage of the night club musical numbers, with perfect timing and a heady taste with excellent use of the reverse shot, involving the viewer.

Although minor, one of the movies that entertains and director worth his vision.