Détective, Jean-Luc Godard’s most commercial venture since Tout va bien (1972), zigzags amongst guests, residents and employees at a Parisian hotel. (It was filmed at the Hotel Concorde Saint-Lazare.) Except at the finish, where the action moves right outside the hotel, the film is so much confined to this place that the setting suggests imaginative […]
Daily Archives: January 20, 2010
The startling opening of Joseph Losey’s The Prowler finds Susan Gilvray, alone in her home, suddenly alarmed as she looks outside a window and into the camera; believing she sees a prowler, she draws the curtain and calls the police. It is, of course, we whom she imagines are taking advantage of her solitude and […]
Dennis Grunes 