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A King Without Distraction (1963)

A King Without Distraction (1963)

Drama Crime
Release Date: 1963, August 30
Directors: François Leterrier
Countries: France
Production: Les Films Jean Giono
Cast: Charles Vanel, René Blancard, Albert Rémy, Pierre Repp, Colette Renard, Claude Giraud

Overview:

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.