Synopsis
A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.
The Sentinel
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Emmanuel Salinger Thibault de Montalembert Jean-Louis Richard Valérie Dréville Marianne Denicourt Jean-Luc Boutté Bruno Todeschini Philippe Duclos Fabrice Desplechin Emmanuelle Devos Philippe Laudenbach László Szabó Alexis Nitzer Nadine Alari Jean-Pierre Ducos Stéphane Thiébaut Louis-Do de Lencquesaing Mathieu Amalric Marc Oliver Sommer Philippe Besson Jeanne Balibar
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Alternative Titles
Die Wache, Az őrszem, La centinela, 哨兵
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France
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20 May 1992
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early on there's a scene with a loud opera singer shrillingly making herself heard at a party and two scenes later you'll hear some early 90s rap music trumpeting through the halls of the very same party, and that's the perfect image of how all over the place this movie is.
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Es ist zwar einiges Skurriles los in dieser morbiden Pathologen-Farce, um wirklich überzeugen zu können, ist dieser Film aber einfach viel zu lang. Die zugegebenermaßen initial durchaus interessanten Figuren entwickeln sich zu Verzerrbildern. Die ganze Schrumpfkopfmysterie enttäuschte mich in ihrer Auflösung. Mit Desplechin werde ich einfach nicht warm.
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Found this casually streaming on Arte.tv... European streaming really is something else.
A strange mix of genres and tones, very ambitious and heartfelt, not exactly unsuccessful but at times quite confusing. The great performances from literally everyone involved make it all worthwhile. I wish Fabrice Desplechin had acted more, he is the absolute MVP here. These days he's a diplomat. Ok! -
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For a debut feature film, this is pretty damn impressive (then again, to be honest I'm not sure why I would expect anything less from a director as preternaturally talented as Arnaud Desplechin). It might not have quite the same level of maturity or tonal control as his later masterpieces My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument and Kings and Queen, but it still feels like an essential piece of his oeuvre, both in the ways that it hints at the filmmaker Desplechin would become, but also for how unique and atypical it is of his characteristic later work.
Although the film features many of the actors who would go on to feature in My Sex Life...…
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finding this one difficult to write about. desplechin's debut feature, having previously only seen "a christmas tale", was not what i expected. a conspiracy thriller that displays the same willingness to cut and move around in fluid and jarring ways during the drama and the casual conversations alike. always somewhere between a pan and a tracking shot. clearly directed by a young man - trying to do everything at once, all the layers - but in trying it often succeeds, or at least has a much better hit rate than most debuts. the most post-soviet french film i've ever seen.
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Le jour où j'ai marché dans la rue avec Arnaud Desplechin🌹
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Vu à la Filmothèque du Quartier Latin en présence d'Arnaud Desplechin -
Сын дипломата приезжает из Германии в Париж учиться на патологоанатома и ещё в поезде сталкивается с грубыми пограничниками. А затем находит в своем чемодане чью-то засушенную голову.
Пожалуй, единственный фильм Деплешена, который можно назвать параноидально-шпионским триллером. Но кроме темы бегущих из СССР учёных и Берлинской стены, тут есть много болтовни про отношения, как и всегда у режиссера, солидный хронометраж и команда его постоянных актеров (в том числе совсем юный Амальрик). В целом любопытно, тем более если помнить, что брат Деплешена реально был дипломатом, а в "Призраках Исмаэля" вновь всплывает шпионская карта. -
What a bizarre idea to build a missing persons case out of an unknown head, in what appears to be a statement about France's complicity in disappearing Russian scientists. Emmanuelle Devos's appearance is but a flicker of what's to come in her partnership with Desplechin; Amalric has like two lines. Some good lessons about camera placement and cutting for performance, but this is more or less told straight, despite the lacunae in the plot, such as it is, fractured by the intertitles and the loose ends left frayed.
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un peu perturbant mais en mm temps génial, j’avoue que je ne comprends pas tout (la fin?!) mais l’aspect historique et amoureux tjrs une masterclass d’arnaud
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Un premier film très ambitieux, dont il est assez plaisant d'assembler progressivement les pièces du puzzle. Un film riche, qui appelle au revisionnage pour en saisir toutes les nuances. Je pense être passé à côté de certains éléments. Mais une approche réaliste très intéressante.