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In Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and widely hailed by critics Monsieur Hire is a complex and engrossing psychological drama examining the line between solitude. desire and mental illness.

Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc: Les Temoins; Grosse Fatigue) is a lonely. middle-aged tailor who has taken up the rather depraved pastime of watching his beautiful neighbour. Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire: La Ceremonie). His neighbours dislike him and the police suspect he may be responsible for the recent murder of a young woman.

One stormy evening, Alice realises that she is being watched, but in a perverse twist, her own intrigue is ignited and a psychological game begins.

Leconte's Monsieur Hire is a deeply affecting portrait of the dark side of obsession.

Director:

Patrice Leconte [8],

Starring:

Sandrine Bonnaire [5], Michel Blanc [1],

Screen Formats:

Widescreen 1.85:1

Subtitles:

English

Language and Sound:

French Dolby Digital Stereo

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