Gripping story with well-crafted characters

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

That's what the French title means.It's one of the numerous two-bit spy thrillers which were thriving in France during the cold war.Directed by Georges Lautner,with a weak cast -with the exception of Bernard lier -,a trite confused plot involving the de rigueur stolen documents,abductions,treacheries,murders,this movie 's one originality is that the action takes place in a mine for the final sequences.Bernard Blier and Georges Lautner will do a much better job in 1963 with "le septième juré".