Movie Details
Original Language:French
Production Companies:Les Films Jean Giono
Cast & Crew
N
Nicole Gauduchon
Assistant Editor
J
Jean Badal
Director of Photography
F
Françoise Javet
Editor
A King Without Distraction
Audience Score
A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bressons A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the miseenscènethe vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images
