What a waste of my time!!!

ridiculous rating

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

A young scientist (Michel Le Royer) has a motorcycle accident,one evening ...He awakes in a strange house where a sinister-looking man (Jean Servais)tells him:"you were dead ,but we brought you back to life".The man reanimates a cat ,as Herbert West will do in "Re-Animator" (1985).There the comparison ends .In the mysterious house ,there is also the obligatory gorgeous strange woman (played by Annette Stroyberg aka Annette Vadim)the hero falls in love with.The plot thickens:it seems that,like the count of Cagliostro,these two persons seem immortal:wasn't the lady a model for Auguste Renoir and other famous painters of another era such as David ? But unfortunately the ending is a big disappointment.It almost thoroughly ruins the mystery atmosphere,an unusual one in the French/Belgian cinema of the early sixties,then under the New Wavelet's thumb.THe film should end when the hero finds back his motorcycle;all that follows is too derivative.Too bad.