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Monsieur Hire
Why this pick
Leconte again turns obsessive longing into a stylised, intimate fable: spare dialogue, tactile ritual, melancholy humour and a romance viewed through the ache of idealisation.
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MOVIE1990 1h 22m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. Though Antoine tells Mathilde that 'the past is dead', his life is evidence that on some level the past repeats itself. As a young boy he fantasised about a hairdresser who committed suicide and as a man in his 50s he begins an affair with a hairdresser which ends after ten years in her suicide. However, there are differences, Mathilde commits suicide because she is so happy she is afraid of the happiness she has found with Antoine ending.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Roland Bertin
Antoine's father
Maurice Chevit
Ambroise Dupré dit Isidore Agopian
Ticky Holgado
Morvoisieux Son-in-Law
Michèle Laroque
Adopted Child's Mother
Jean Rochefort
Antoine
Anna Galiena
Mathilde