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Bookmark this pageThey Call That an Accident (1981)
Director: Nathalie Delon
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From Time Out Film Guide
A woman's only son is killed through the negligence of his doctor. Her husband, in practice at the same clinic, colludes in the cover-up. They Call That an Accident has interesting credentials: it's the first directorial effort of its star, Nathalie Delon (who also scripted); it was produced by Island, and features music by their artists Steve Winwood and Marianne Faithfull, including her splendidly sour song 'Guilt'; and it's a revenge thriller, a sort of Death Wish with a female protagonist. A clue to the film's main problem is in fact in the title of that Faithfull song: the tightrope between self-destructiveness and revenge proves a difficult one to negotiate generically in a way that leaves the heroine with her - and our - convictions intact. Obsession is on occasion frittered away into mere whimsy, or even modishness, despite some unfaultably bleak locations.Author: VG
Cast & crew
Director: Nathalie Delon
Producer: Stéphane Sperry
Cast: Nathalie Delon, Patrick Norbert, Gilles Ségal, Jean-Pierre Bagot, Robert Benoît full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 90 mins
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