That Man from Rio (L' Homme de Rio, 1964)

In collaboration with the Plein Air Festival du cinéma français

Director: Philippe de Broca
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais 
Duration: 112'

After the mysterious kidnapping of a famous ethnologist’s daughter, her young fiancée goes as far as Brazil to find her and comes across a ruthless group of antiquities smugglers.

«That Man From Rio» - which accomplished one of the biggest box office success in the French cinema of the 60s and an international reach that made it to the Oscars with a nomination for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - is a humorous and incessantly entertaining variation of James Bond’s adventures.

With an irresistible and dynamic Jean-Paul Belmondo, a charming Françoise Dorleac as his ideal partner, a magical exotic background, relentless action, extraordinary cascades and fast rhythms, the film eliminates any sort of realism and seriousness right from the start and focuses on a gesture of exonerated and wonderfully delivered cinematic escape.

Loukas Katsikas