Detective (AU) ( Détective )

Detective (AU) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Détective
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Jean-Luc Godard

Written By:
Alain Sarde
Philippe Setbon

Actors:
Laurent Terzieff ..... William Prospero
Aurelle Doazan ..... Arielle
Jean-Pierre Léaud ..... Inspector Neveu
Nathalie Baye ..... Françoise Chenal
Claude Brasseur ..... Emile Chenal
Johnny Hallyday ..... Jim Fox Warner
Alain Cuny ..... Old Mafioso
Xavier Saint-Macary ..... Accountant
Pierre Bertin ..... Young Son
Alexandra Garijo ..... Young Daughter
Stéphane Ferrara ..... Tiger Jones
Emmanuelle Seigner ..... Princess of the Bahamas
Eugène Berthier ..... Old manager
Julie Delpy ..... Wise young girl
Cyrille Dajinckourt ..... La fille

Synopsis:

After several years of making films to please only himself, French director Jean-Luc Godard once more invites the audience to the party with The Detective. Not that there's anything so blase as a linear plot or appealing characters, but at least some of Godard's isolated vignettes are accessible this time around. Set in the Hotel Concorde at St. Lazare, the film is set in motion when miserably married Nathalie Baye and Claude Brasseur attempt to collect a debt from mob-plagued boxing manager Johnny Hallyday. Meanwhile, hotel detective Jean-Pierre Leaud tries to solve an old murder case. These two gossamer plot strands are used to tie together Godard's scattershot views on modern life, with emphasis on the voyeuristic potential of the recent video-camera boom. The director dashed off The Detective to raise money for a film he truly cared about, the controversial Hail Mary.

Thriller: a woman named Sharon Avery tries to use her clairvoyant powers to lead the police to an abducted child; however they arrive too late to save the boy's life. Hounded by angry reporters, Sharon is involved in a terrible car accident. Some years later Avery appears to have lost her powers and is trapped in a loveless marriage. During an attempt to kill herself Avery has another vision of an abducted child and passes her fears onto the sceptical Inspector Schumann. Later a little girl is found murdered.... [flier tagline] Visions of Darkness.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 17 January, 2009.

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