Film screening
Détective
Stadtkino Basel
Klostergasse 5, 4051 Basel
"At the Hotel Concorde St. in Paris.
Veranstaltungsdetails
"A group of detectives has taken up residence at the Concorde St. Lazare Hotel in Paris, secretly spying on the other guests - pilot Emíle Chenal, boxing promoter Jim Warner, his protégé Tiger Jones, and the bare-chested Princess of the Bahamas. But most of all, the detectives are interested in mob boss The Prince, whose criminal associates have apparently taken control of the entire hotel."
Moviepilot.com
"There's a smell of death at the Hotel Concorde St. Lazaire, Jean-Pierre Léaud smells it from the start. He has a nose for it, because he plays the detective. And sleuths have a special nose for the smell of corpses and decay. The filmmakers, however, are usually a nose ahead of the detectives: "Cinema watches death at work," is a saying by Cocteau, which Godard often likes to quote.Détective is a crime film in quotation marks. Godard quotes books, films, above all himself. (...) He was not interested in the plot, only in the atmosphere. In this respect, however, Détectived is a true film noir: no one understands the plot, not the actors, not the audience; perhaps Jean-Luc Godard also had his difficulties. But the scenery is gloomy, the situation fatal, the mood tense. Detectives need this atmosphere."
Claudius Seidl, Die Zeit, 16.5.1986
Contributors and additional information:
Switzerland/France 1985
98 min. color. 35 mm. F/d
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay: Alain Sarde, Philippe Setbon, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Cinematography: Louis Bihi, Pierre Novion, Bruno Nuytten
Editing: Marilyne Dubreuil
Music: Emmanuel Chabrier
With: Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Moviepilot.com
"There's a smell of death at the Hotel Concorde St. Lazaire, Jean-Pierre Léaud smells it from the start. He has a nose for it, because he plays the detective. And sleuths have a special nose for the smell of corpses and decay. The filmmakers, however, are usually a nose ahead of the detectives: "Cinema watches death at work," is a saying by Cocteau, which Godard often likes to quote.Détective is a crime film in quotation marks. Godard quotes books, films, above all himself. (...) He was not interested in the plot, only in the atmosphere. In this respect, however, Détectived is a true film noir: no one understands the plot, not the actors, not the audience; perhaps Jean-Luc Godard also had his difficulties. But the scenery is gloomy, the situation fatal, the mood tense. Detectives need this atmosphere."
Claudius Seidl, Die Zeit, 16.5.1986
Contributors and additional information:
Switzerland/France 1985
98 min. color. 35 mm. F/d
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay: Alain Sarde, Philippe Setbon, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Cinematography: Louis Bihi, Pierre Novion, Bruno Nuytten
Editing: Marilyne Dubreuil
Music: Emmanuel Chabrier
With: Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.