Monsieur Hire (Ws Sub)
by Patrice Leconte
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Actor: Sandrine Bonnaire Michel BlancDirector: Patrice Leconte
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 81 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Kino International
Movie Reviews of Monsieur Hire (Ws Sub)
Movie Review: Another Winner For Leconte
Summary: 4 Stars
For a reviewer who likes great cinematography, nice colors and a pretty female face, this film offers all of the above for me.
Director Patrice Leconte usually makes stylish movies and this is no exception. It's beautiful to view. So is Sandrine Bonnaire, the leading lady. There are numerous closeups of her in this movie. This French film doesn't show much "skin," yet the film has an erotic appeal. That tells you something.
Michel Blanc, the male lead, plays a strange character but he's fascinating to watch, too. To be honest, the film has its slow moments but it is mesmerizing at times. The story is interesting overall and aided by two surprise twists at the end.
It's nice to see this film finally became available on DVD in Region 1 so this great photography could really be shown off. Too bad it's a little pricey.
Summary of Monsieur Hire (Ws Sub)
Touching, lyrical, erotic, suspenseful and enigmatic, Patrice Leconte s (Girl on the Bridge) 1989 psychological drama Monsieur Hire is both a twisted love story and a tragic thriller (London Sunday Times). In a provincial French apartment block, Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc) endures a solitary life of dulling work as a tailor and vitriolic scorn from his neighbors. Hire s only solace is an occasional night out bowling and the voyeuristic admiration of his neighbor, the ravishingly erotic (Entertainment Weekly) Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire Vagabond, ? Nos Amours), a beautiful, free-spirited woman conducting a heated love affair through un-drawn curtains across the way. But when police discover the nude body of another young woman in a nearby vacant lot, Hire becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation that brings him face to face with the object of his desire even as it threatens to ensnare them both in a web of deceit, accusation, lust, and guilt. Adapted from the book by celebrated Belgian crime novelist Georges Simenon, Monsieur Hire is a film of gorgeously muted widescreen color and funereal beauty (The Washington Post) that coolly unpacks sexual obsession and romantic love with an intelligence and understated intensity so delicate that you almost hold your breath for the last half-hour (Roger Ebert).Art House & International DVD Video
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