I must seek out Garde à Vue, based on your recommendation. Not having seen the
original, I wasn't actually underwhelmed by 'Under Suspicion', or by Monica
Bellucci in the female lead -- but that is an entirely different matter, if you
know what I mean.
PatrickÂ
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From: davidcorbett622 <davidcorbettauthor@gmail.com>
To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 19 August, 2010 18:50:55
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Garde à Vue
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I was wondering if anyone on the list ever saw this film, from 1981, starring
Michel Serrault, who also played the drag queen Albin in La Cage Aux Folles. He
was great in this, as the man of means suspected of two child murders. Almost
the entire film takes place in the police station and is just gripping as hell.
Romy Schneider plays the wife and I don't want to give anything away, so I'll
stop there.
It was remade for American audiences as Under Suspicion, with Gene Hackman in
the suspect role, and Morgan Freeman as the cop. Like most remakes, it was
underwhelming -- if for no other reason than it gave up on the central premise,
the claustrophobic interrogation.
It's right up there with The Clockmaker and Monsieur Hire and Read My Lips as
one of my favorite post-Melville French crime films. (RML may be Belgian,
actually. If so, oops.)
Like another of my favorite crime films, this one the Brit bank caper Bellman &
True, it's damn hard to find on DVD, unless one has a region-free player. Guess
it's time for that investment.
David Corbett
www.davidcorbett.com
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