The veiled man.
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Pierre is one of them ;he's back from Lebanon where he was confronted to the horror of the massacre of children of a village ; he has accepted to kill Kamal , responsible for this genocide and who hides in Paris .
But Pierre's daughter , Claire ,meets the terrorist and falls for him .
Bernard Giraudeau was one of the best French actors and he's deeply moving when he tells his awful memories to his daughter :no flashbacks, all his suggested,but the actor's tormented face tells it all .
But in spite of the high rating ,the movie is confused , often verging on melodrama (the Claire/Kamal love affair) and the stakes remain vague ;even Giraudeau's character succumbs to the usual cliché of the divorced man (who leaves for Lebanon to give a new meaning to his life?his motives are not clear ,in spite of the principal's talent)
The film suffers from heavy-handed symbolism : the quarters of meat which comes back several times .The ending is too facile ,the easy way out.
On the other hand ,Paris almost becomes an oriental town thanks to music, oriental dances, hammam, haunting night scenes ...
Pierre is one of them ;he's back from Lebanon where he was confronted to the horror of the massacre of children of a village ; he has accepted to kill Kamal , responsible for this genocide and who hides in Paris .
But Pierre's daughter , Claire ,meets the terrorist and falls for him .
Bernard Giraudeau was one of the best French actors and he's deeply moving when he tells his awful memories to his daughter :no flashbacks, all his suggested,but the actor's tormented face tells it all .
But in spite of the high rating ,the movie is confused , often verging on melodrama (the Claire/Kamal love affair) and the stakes remain vague ;even Giraudeau's character succumbs to the usual cliché of the divorced man (who leaves for Lebanon to give a new meaning to his life?his motives are not clear ,in spite of the principal's talent)
The film suffers from heavy-handed symbolism : the quarters of meat which comes back several times .The ending is too facile ,the easy way out.
On the other hand ,Paris almost becomes an oriental town thanks to music, oriental dances, hammam, haunting night scenes ...
- ulicknormanowen
- Aug 4, 2021