Frantic (1988)
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner
Synopsis:
In Paris for a medical conference, a doctor emerges from the shower to find that his wife has disappeared and, with the help of a prostitute, must enter the criminal drug culture of the capital in order to find her.
Review:
Polanski's 'Hitchcock picture' is often like a sentimental journey through the settings of The Tenant, as well as North by Northwest and The Man Who Knew Too Much, and is filmed in the same detached, yet exhaustively meticulous style, quite unlike the Master of Suspense, who seizes on one detail and manipulates his audience with it. It is this peculiarly unthrilling thriller tactic, together with Ford's exasperated and oddly coiffed hero, that saves the film from anonymity, 'cos the dialogue and location work might be okay, but the story's naff, mate.'
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner
Synopsis:
In Paris for a medical conference, a doctor emerges from the shower to find that his wife has disappeared and, with the help of a prostitute, must enter the criminal drug culture of the capital in order to find her.
Review:
Polanski's 'Hitchcock picture' is often like a sentimental journey through the settings of The Tenant, as well as North by Northwest and The Man Who Knew Too Much, and is filmed in the same detached, yet exhaustively meticulous style, quite unlike the Master of Suspense, who seizes on one detail and manipulates his audience with it. It is this peculiarly unthrilling thriller tactic, together with Ford's exasperated and oddly coiffed hero, that saves the film from anonymity, 'cos the dialogue and location work might be okay, but the story's naff, mate.'
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner
Synopsis:
In Paris for a medical conference, a doctor emerges from the shower to find that his wife has disappeared and, with the help of a prostitute, must enter the criminal drug culture of the capital in order to find her.
Review:
Polanski's 'Hitchcock picture' is often like a sentimental journey through the settings of The Tenant, as well as North by Northwest and The Man Who Knew Too Much, and is filmed in the same detached, yet exhaustively meticulous style, quite unlike the Master of Suspense, who seizes on one detail and manipulates his audience with it. It is this peculiarly unthrilling thriller tactic, together with Ford's exasperated and oddly coiffed hero, that saves the film from anonymity, 'cos the dialogue and location work might be okay, but the story's naff, mate.'