A King Without Distraction

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.

Cast

Claude Giraud le capitaine Langlois Colette Renard Clara Charles Vanel le procureur du roi Albert Rémy le maire René Blancard le curé Pierre Repp Ravanel

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