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Monsieur Hire Details

1989

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Starring	Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sandrine Bonnaire, Andre Wilms
Director	Patrice Leconte
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

Monsieur Hire

Lonely and shy bachelor Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc), suspected in the murder of a girl, secretly watches his young, attractive neighbor Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire) through the window. Once, when lightning flashes during a thunderstorm, she notices his face in the window and comes to him to find out what he is after. Adapting Georges Simenon's novel, Patrice Leconte emphasized the psychological drama rather than the detective story and created a film about loneliness and voyeurism; his cold precision is reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock or Fritz Lang. The low-key acting and moody soundtrack add a lot, but it's the director who deserves the most accolades, as he manages, with only glances and gestures, to achieve a degree of eroticism that other films fail to reach even through explicit sex scenes.~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide

Starring	Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sandrine Bonnaire, Andre Wilms, Eric Berenger
Director	Patrice Leconte
Studio	METRODOME DISTRIBUTION
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 15 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: French
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1989 To Rent: DVD: 15 May 2006

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- MONSIEUR HIRE inhabits a cloistered world where love must turn to obsession, and every friendship may cloak betrayal...
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  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
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  Gloomy but French gloomy!
  
  Typical French fare,girl,guys,yes two,naughty bits,deep emotions,death -- the end! Worth a hire!
  
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  - 03 Jun 2006 at 12:26
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  Thoughtful, interesting.
  
  Very moving story, well-paced, well-acted.
  
  Very adult, in a good way, in that it allows characters to develop and form the basis of a rather ... read more »
  
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  - 29 Sep 2011 at 16:29
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  Watching the watcher is weird stuff.
  
  Still can't decide how much I liked this film. The acting was good but it's a spooky storyline of voyeurism that is unsettling.
  
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  - 29 Aug 2011 at 13:46
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  Haunting and unrelentingly sad
  
  I took a few days to write the review and although the film didn't make a huge impact at first (it is quite short and rather distant in tone) I'm struck... read more »
  
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  Lonely and shy bachelor Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc), suspected in the murder of a girl, secretly watches his young, attractive neighbor Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire) through the window. Once, when lightning flashes during a thunderstorm, she notices his face in the window and comes to him to find out ...