Bibliograph

Monsieur Hire, director, by Patrice Leconte

Type

Label

Monsieur Hire, director, by Patrice Leconte

Language

fre

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: PG-13

Main title

Monsieur Hire

Medium

Blu-ray

Oclc number

1342798886

Responsibility statement

director, by Patrice Leconte

Runtime

Summary

Adapted from the book by 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 intelligence and understated intensity. A young girl is brutally murdered. The prime suspect is a cold and reclusive man who is obsessed with his beautiful neighbor. He spends his nights watching her through his window, but when she discovers that she is being spied on, she becomes the aggressor in an erotically charged relationship that leads to a deadly game of cat -and -mouse

Technique

live action

Classification