Cluset- a French Hoffman look-a-like
Now I love Hitchcock movies.....many moons ago in my first year of my film studies degree, all of my best marked assignments more or less covered most of his most famous movies.
Tonight I treated myself to a showing of La Mecanique de l'ombre which couldn't have looked more Hitchcockian if it had dug up Kim Novack and forced her limp dead body into a a snug grey suit!
Duval ( Francois Cluset) is a sixty something failure. An OCD , ex alcoholic , he is recruited to a mystery corporation to transcribe taped conversations of people under surveillance. After hearing a phonecall where someone is potentially murdered , Duval realises that he is not employed by the French government but by a corporate organisation ready to kill anyone who gets in their politically sensitive way.
Yeap, it could be The Man who knew too much, North By Northwest or Rear Window with the shopworn Cluset standing in very well for the more chiseled Cary Grant or James Stewart , men in over their heads as twists and turns playfully baffle the audience.
If you have 90 minutes to spare.
Go and see it....its great fun
Ooooh I would love to see it. He looks like a handsome Dustin Hoffman !
ReplyDeleteI am waiting for a hurricane to hit :(
Been thinking about you and the kitties all day.
DeleteHi John,
ReplyDeleteI think Kim is alive and well, 84 years old and living in Southern Oregon...
She died in vertigo
DeleteHa! How right you are.
DeleteAs your previous poster noted, Ms. Novak is alive and well. As for the summarized plot, it sounds very much like the movie The Conversation with Gene Hackman. You may want to check it out.
ReplyDeleteBetty
Kim Novak's body is not dead yet but may well be limp since she is now 84 years old.
ReplyDeleteI will definitely check this movie out if it comes to a theatre near me.
ReplyDeleteooo, sounds lovely. I'm looking for good escapism.
ReplyDeleteEnglish subtitles? Presumably - well sorry John but my brain never works quick enough to take them in and convert them. It never ceases to amaze me how you get such weird films in such an out of the way area.
ReplyDelete(I've just seen your mentioning of this on my own blog).
ReplyDeleteStrange how somewhere like neighbouring art-conscious Brighton (with two 'art-house' cinemas comprising three screens) doesn't get a film like this (yet?) while you do. It just ain't fair!
I did have a chuckle about digging Kim Novak up. loved Hitchcock films.
ReplyDeleteI love when you speak French!
ReplyDeleteHe is also very good in 'Tell Noone' and 'Untouchable'...
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