L'Etrangleur (1970)
Directed by Paul Vecchiali
Genres - Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
Sub-Genres - Detective Film, Psychological Drama |
Run Time - 93 min. |
Countries - France |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile (Jacques Perrin), a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective (Julien Guiomar) assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man. In one instance, he impersonates a psychologist on a TV show he and Emile appear on together and attempts to provoke Emile into revealing himself. This film's cinematic style may be a kind of homage to the classic Fritz Lang thriller, M.
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Keywords
assisted-suicide, detective, impersonation, investigation, killing, maniac, murder, psychology, serial-killer, unhappiness
