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A good example of the good ole B movie recipe : - Take a major studio who buys anything Stephen King wrote, including whatever his trash bin may contains. - Take a medium budget from the studio. Take a good writer who is able to get something out of the five lines long King story and can also direct a movie for the same price. - Take a movie star who spend too much time in Europe the last years. - shot the thing in Canada to reduce even more the cost - put some sound effect every fiftheen seconds - screen-test it over and over and remove the last remains of quality.

...and you'll get a nice and clean B movie with a wide theatrical release.

Don't mind if it was already shot 15 years earlier on a similar story* wrote by Stephen King, in the same environment, with the same character and pretty much the same story (although the end was the exact opposite) by a George A.Romero in a bad turn of his carrier. Back then the movie was called : The Dark Half (1993) and the leading role was held by Timothy Hutton. Timothy Hutton who happened to be one of the cast of Secret Window ! Is it cynicism or lack of ideas, or both ?

First i have to say, I didn't like this movie. Too "sixties" for me. During this years of fear, confusion ans sex liberation there were tons of experimental movies. This is one of them. So, if you like solid scripts and action, get way from this film.

This film is an experience like a David Lynch movie, very hypnotic and seducing if you are caught in it.

It's also a sequel - or a reply - to Jean-Luc Godard's "Le Mepris". First, there's Piccoli (sometimes he's dressed the same as in "Le Mepris") and there are many scenes who work as an echo of Godard's movie (the arguing scene, the jump in the sea...) Like a french critic said "Dillinger" is like "Le Mepris" with Brigitte Bardot on the first floor sleeping.

So, not a film as experimental and "destroy" as it seemed at first look. Unusual for sure but worth a look.

Big disappointment to see how french « cinema d'auteur » does not learn anything of his mistakes. "Sauf le Respect que je vous dois" Is a very scholar movie whose only purpose is to show a complete portfolio of the skills the director's pretending to. The main concern of Fabienne Godet is to prove that, with a little more money, she would be able to shoot in every genre. So, the social movie fast turns into a cheap thriller - with an unjustified gore - scene before sliding towards an investigation movie with dull dialogs. I wonder why Olivier Gourmet came into this thing where you can feel the weight of the large crew behind every camera move. Not only the cinematography is awful and the sets too sophisticated for that kind of story, the director seems to have watched over and over Michael Mann's Insider (2000). Despite different stories, you can sense the influence of this particular Michael Mann movie from the very beginning. But, the better, or the worst, is yet to come... In the middle of the film, the director simply uses Lisa Gerrard's music for the Michael Mann movie, presuming the audience is not only blind but also def. One small advice for Fabienne Godet : don't think Michael Mann's movie are only catalogs of great looking images. It's true the man has an awesome talent but he's also working hard on his scripts.