Synopsis
Rider on the Rain (Le Passager de la pluie, 1970) is René Clément's French-Italian thriller, and you can watch it online on iFILM. In a quiet seaside town a young woman kills the man who assaults her and slips his body into the sea, certain the matter is closed.
It isn't. Before long a calm, unhurried American shows up at her door, seeming to know her every move and drawing her into a slow cat-and-mouse game until a confession starts to surface. Charles Bronson plays against type here — not an avenger but a soft-spoken hunter for the truth — while Marlène Jobert is the cornered woman whose nerves keep fraying. Who he is and what he actually wants stays uncertain for a long while.
Clément builds suspense in half-tones: rain, empty streets, things left unsaid. Francis Lai wrote the uneasy waltz of a theme, and it lingers. The film took the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. A fine choice for anyone who loves old-school European thrillers that run on mood rather than gore. Stream Rider on the Rain (1970) online on iFILM.
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