10:30 PM Summer (1966)

Set in Spain, during a terrible thunderstorm, a married couple (Melina Mercouri, Peter Finch) traveling with their friend (Romy Schneider), take refuge in a small hotel. During their stay, the wife becomes obsessed with a man (Julian Mateos) on the run from the police for killing his wife and her lover. Based on the novel 10:30 ON A SUMMER NIGHT by Marguerite Duras (who co-wrote the screenplay) and directed by Jules Dassin (NIGHT AND THE CITY). An odd film! There's only the thinnest (very thin) of plots as an enigmatically moody Mercouri obsesses (in equal measure) over the affair that's going on under her very nose between her spouse and her best friend and the crime of passion killer on the run from the law. I'm sure it's about something but I'll be damned if I could figure it out. I wouldn't call it pretentious as it was compelling enough for me to become engaged with it but I'm not sure Dassin figured out what it was about either.