Directed by Rene Clement
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
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Frank Langella and his wife Faye Dunaway are Americans living in Paris. His old employers show up and attempt to blackmail him into becoming an industrial spy. They torment his wife by making her think she is going crazy, then kidnap his kids. The entire film is a sort of slow burn, there is no big action scene and the ending is anticlimactic, but it is not without its rewards for the patient viewer. The cinematography by Andreas Winding is atmospheric and makes the most of its Paris locations. Dunaway has a difficult role as an emotionally fragile wife, but for the most part pulls it off convincingly. Very little information is given about the kidnappers, the story is mostly from the point of view of the parents, and that does keep us in the dark about their motivations and hurts the film.
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