The Dictator’s Guns
Original title: L’arme à gauche
Year: 1965
Director: Claude Sautet
Country of origin: France
An adventure film. Violent, direct, turbulent. Setting: the Caribbean Sea and, more precisely, a stranded boat. Characters: on the one hand, arms dealers, led by a thug who fires a machine gun without thinking; on the other, a man who may not be very intelligent, but who knows the sea and boats and has the simple courage of honest people; and there is also a beautiful widow. It’s a movie of gestures and glances; it’s also a movie of silences, which play just as much of a dramatic role in the action as the fights. It’s a film of various objects, in which the hero leads his fight on two fronts: against men first, but also against this inanimate boat that he is trying to bring back to life.
Source: translated and adapted from Le Monde.
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