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Triple Agent
Triple Agent
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TRIPLE AGENT

Directed by Éric Rohmer
France, Italy, 2004
Thriller

Synopsis

France, 1936, at the time of the Spanish Civil War. Fiodor, a general in the former Tsar’s army, has taken flight to Paris together with his young Greek wife, Arsinoé. Arsinoé sympathizes with her Communist neighbors, but Fiodor’s stance is unclear. White Russian, Soviet, Nazi…whose side is he on?

Synopsis

France, 1936, at the time of the Spanish Civil War. Fiodor, a general in the former Tsar’s army, has taken flight to Paris together with his young Greek wife, Arsinoé. Arsinoé sympathizes with her Communist neighbors, but Fiodor’s stance is unclear. White Russian, Soviet, Nazi…whose side is he on?

Our take

A spy film from Eric Rohmer? Oh yes, but a subtle one: A perfect genre for the New Wave’s master of the erudition, social gameplaying and (self-)deceptions of the bourgeoisie. A rare period film, its sly drama, enveloping love with politics, is Hitchcockian: Is your beloved in fact your betrayer?