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Bookmark this pageGarde à Vue (1981)
Director: Claude Miller
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From Time Out Film Guide
A fine psychological thriller, adapted from an English mystery novel (John Wainwright's Brainwash) already accented by a Série Noire translation. The potential staginess of the material - a New Year's Eve interrogation in a provincial police station - is admirably shaken by inspired adaptation, mise en scène and editing as cop Ventura turns 'witness' Serrault (an attorney obsessed with his own mediocrity) into a suspected rapist and murderer. No descent to glib cat-and-mouse cleverness, and no recourse to actorly fireworks: Miller's confidence in dialogue and an ever more tightly twisting plot is simply a gripping joy.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Miller
Producer: Georges Dancigers, Alexandre Mnouchkine
Cast: Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Guy Marchand, Romy Schneider, Didier Agostini, Patrick Depeyrat full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 88 mins
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