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7.5/10   349 votes
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Director:
Jacques Rivette
Writers:
Pascal Bonitzer (scenario) and
Emmanuelle Cuau (scenario) ...
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Release Date:
18 March 1998 (France) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Plot:
Film inspired by Hitchcock's Vertigo. Rivette uses the stereotypes of the genre and cuts them off when the heroin Sylvie (Sandrine Bonnaire)... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Masterpiece (if I remember correctly...) more (6 total)

Cast

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Sandrine Bonnaire ... Sylvie
Jerzy Radziwilowicz ... Walser
Grégoire Colin ... Paul
Laure Marsac ... Véronique / Ludivine
Françoise Fabian ... Geneviève
Christine Vouilloz ... Myriam
Mark Saporta ... Jules
Sara Louis ... Carole
Hermine Karagheuz ... L'infirmière
Bernadette Giraud ... Marthe
Micheline Herzog ... Sabine
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Patrick Le Bouar ... Robert
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Famille (France) (working title)
Secret Defense (UK)
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Runtime:
170 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Argentina:13 | France:U | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG

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Movie Connections:
Features Brigands, chapitre VII (1996) more
Soundtrack:
Di perra mora more

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Masterpiece (if I remember correctly...), 7 September 2007
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Author: Joseph Murray from United Kingdom

I read the comment posted on the sight and felt I had to give a counterbalance... I saw this film about two years ago on a basic VHS copy and was astonished. Yes of course you need to be prepared to deal with a long playing time, and a pace that may at first appear on the slow side, but BUT... ...Rivette pulls off an extraordinary coup in managing to ratchet up the sense of paranoia so intensely that, by about a third of the way through the film, you find yourself watching even the most innocent, apparently event-less scene with total rapt attention. Essentially taking core Hitchcockian suspense techniques and pushing them almost even further than that Master did, this has to be seen to be believed, in my opinion. Bonnaire is extraordinary; you become engrossed in just watching her thinking! The whole thing is a text book example of how to manipulate the viewer's mind to such an extent that they end up directing the film themselves... My only cavil might be the ending - I needed perhaps a touch more to be brought out onto the surface, but otherwise, (and certainly if you know Rivette's other work) open your mind and try it.

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