It's an art movie, totally driven at a humanist point of view, a lonely widow Michel Descombes a watchmaker lives his placid life at Lyon, when receives a sad new from the police that his unique son committed a murder for his young girlfriend, both are at large, Le Commissaire Guilbold (Jean Rochfort) in charge on the inquiry see in the depressing humble man his blatant suffering, Michel tries get some answers diving at his past memories, when the young couple are arrested, Michel is request by Guilbold to meet his son at Paris, the boy refuses faces him due the shame inflicted at his father, the defence lawyer suggests a crime of passion to relief the sentence with mitigating factors to Michel shall convinces the boy, nevertheless his son denies such pleading, thus Michel finally resigns at son's will, arid and hard issue, not a crime movie, directed by Bertrand Tavernier who try exposes the degrading plight of a powerless father to help his son, having a laconic old Lyon as backdrop on many sequences the movie survives on a tightrope, deeply devasting!!
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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / DVD / Rating: 8.5
Resume:
First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / DVD / Rating: 8.5