Reply To: What are you listening to now?
I originally saw this movie 30 years ago or so, I caught it by chance on TV and thought it was fascinating. As if Franz Kafka and M. Night Shyamalan had decided to collaborate on a film Noir. Gérard Depardieu stars as a once famous but now reclusive author, who gets picked up by the police after acting suspiciously disoriented. Roman Polanski plays the inspector who in a battle of wits tries to uncover what has happened. There is just one more question, one more “pure formality” that sets free the next layer, and the night at the police station becomes increasingly an interrogation.
I always loved Morricone’s score for this film (and it features prominently, the movie’s director, Giuseppe Tornatore, seems to make movies made for Morricone sensibilities), but never found it. It’s a “grail” I had almost forgotten. So glad it has now been re-released by Quartet Records.
