French actress Mireille
Dargent acted in six movies, four of which were for
director Jean Rollin. The one she’s
most known for is a Rollin film where
her presence reverberated inside my memory, ever since I saw it. This film is Requiem for a Vampire, where the sultry
redhead appears alongside one-half of the Castel
twins, Marie-Pierre Castel. The two actresses
play a couple of inseparable lovers, who after escaping some sort of crime heist,
curiously dressed as clowns, eventually find themselves in vampire territory. Interestingly
enough, we are introduced to this clown couple and their male companion at the
start of the film in a high speed chase with guns blazing. After losing their
pursuers, their male companion passes away, not surviving his gunshot wound. The two clowns, named
Michelle (Dargent) and Marie (Castel), set fire to their car, with the deceased’s body inside of it, before travelling off on foot and on
their own. When they wash off the paint and lose their clown getup, it’s
revealed, not surprisingly, that there were a couple of attractive girls
underneath the clown makeup.
