This Man Must Die
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Movie Reviews of This Man Must Die
Movie Review: deadly patience and ticking bomb
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a film about vengeance, but it is more like water torture than action suspense. The protagonist, a writer of obvious means, sets out to find the hit-and-run killer of his son. After the police reach a slothful dead end, he sets out in pursuit of his theories of who the killer might be - the type of man, his job, his support network. He quickly discovers a lovely young woman he thinks if related to the man and seduces her, infiltrating himself into the larger family.
While contemplating what he will do, the film becomes a study of how the undertaking is changing him, with the relationships he forms, with the plans to kill, with the fleeting opportunities that present themselves. The viewer wonders if he has the right person, perhaps he is insane. Then the supposed perpetrator comes to the fore as an utterly despicable bully, a salaud that many think would be better off dead. Can he carry out a conspiracy? What if he is wrong? What exactly does he do or not do? Can he recover and have a life again, in particular with the love he may have felt for the girl? All of this remains unclear until the very end, and even then there are many threads left dangling and unanswered.
This is psychological thriller at its best and can be viewed many times, which is always the test for whether I would want to purchase a film. Recommended. There are many levels at which you can view this.
Movie Review: Cast of Characters
Summary: 4 Stars
"This Man Must Die" has an odd title but a story that bears it out. We discover pretty quickly what the plot is as we follow a man who is driven to find the person who killed his son. The father's focus and determination leads him toward the killer (obviously that has to happen or else this wouldn't be much of a movie). The bad guy turns out to be an absolutely terrible person (which I thought was a bit over done). However, this gets us all the more involved with the mission and a lot less so with the moral implications. That's probably as much of a summation as I dare make. There is a lot to be surprized about in this movie.
After seeing three of Chabrol's movies, I have come to appreciate his focus on relationships. There certainly are some strained (and strange) ones in this movie but it is in focussing on these relationships that we find the true excellence in his movies. He doesn't generally handle the suspense and mystery nearly as well as Hitchcock (or others) but we come to know the characters a lot better than most other movies in his genre.
Movie Review: HE WILL
Summary: 4 Stars
THIS MAN MUST DIE (Que la Bête Meure) is a movie written and directed by French director Claude Chabrol in 1969. The film is about the revenge of a father looking for the hit-and-run driver who's killed his only son.It's a pleasure to rediscover these Claude Chabrol movies of the late sixties-early seventies period. Often despised by those who swear only by the name of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard when speaking of the french New Wave, Claude Chabrol deserves our utmost respect. Each of his films is the acid description of a slice, in the Balzacian meaning of the word, of the french society of his time.
Chabrol is an admirable storyteller with a caustic and perceptive mind. His actors and actresses don't have much to say, their behaviours and silences replacing for the best unnecessary lines of dialogs.
A DVD zone "tell me a story".
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