Movie #208 "Monsieur Hire" I had heard about for years, and then I wasn't in the mood to see anything tonight, and I came across it and wow am I ever glad I did. The average rating was 3.3, but I thought it was a 5 (rottentomatoes gave it 100%). I must admit, though, in the opening I was thinking: this is a famous French film? the main character is strange, he's a voyeur, this is odd. I couldn't predict one scene to the next, and as one scene unfolded into the next, my eyes became riveted to the screen. One critic called it "a gripping thriller, with erotic undertones" and I thought that pegged this, if anything could. As the character and plot get peeled away , you start thinking that you are watching a master film maker at work. I highly recommend it, but you have to get past the first couple of scenes, and then jump on and ride this thriller to the end of the line. You won't be disappointed.
Average rating: 3.343
I gave it 5 stars
Monsieur Hire
(1989) PG-13
Reclusive middle-aged bachelor Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc) spies nightly on his seductive neighbor, Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire), through her undraped windows. She seems to welcome the attention … until a 22-year-old woman's nude corpse turns up in the vicinity. Suspicion quickly falls on the voyeuristic Hire, and an erotic game of cat and mouse unspools -- with a twist -- in this spellbinding French thriller from director Patrice Leconte.
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