Paris by Night (1988)
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: David Hare
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Robert Hardy, Iain Glen, Jane Asher
Synopsis:
A woman Conservative for the European Parliament receives threatening phone calls and is approached by a man, whom she and her husband have defrauded in the past, wanting money. When, on a trip to Paris, she sees him again, she pushes him into the Seine. Her neatly ordered life crumbles about her.
Review:
While hindered by its assumption that today's Tories are sick, paranoid, homicidal people, about, in true Tacitean style, to bring up a generation still more depraved, this is a richly enjoyable hybrid of political drama and film noir, dominated by a Crawfordesque portrayal of Machiavellian womanhood.
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: David Hare
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Robert Hardy, Iain Glen, Jane Asher
Synopsis:
A woman Conservative for the European Parliament receives threatening phone calls and is approached by a man, whom she and her husband have defrauded in the past, wanting money. When, on a trip to Paris, she sees him again, she pushes him into the Seine. Her neatly ordered life crumbles about her.
Review:
While hindered by its assumption that today's Tories are sick, paranoid, homicidal people, about, in true Tacitean style, to bring up a generation still more depraved, this is a richly enjoyable hybrid of political drama and film noir, dominated by a Crawfordesque portrayal of Machiavellian womanhood.
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: David Hare
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Robert Hardy, Iain Glen, Jane Asher
Synopsis:
A woman Conservative for the European Parliament receives threatening phone calls and is approached by a man, whom she and her husband have defrauded in the past, wanting money. When, on a trip to Paris, she sees him again, she pushes him into the Seine. Her neatly ordered life crumbles about her.
Review:
While hindered by its assumption that today's Tories are sick, paranoid, homicidal people, about, in true Tacitean style, to bring up a generation still more depraved, this is a richly enjoyable hybrid of political drama and film noir, dominated by a Crawfordesque portrayal of Machiavellian womanhood.