1988 · mystery · crime · drama
Frantic
Directed by Roman Polanski2h 0m1988
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Our read: Frantic (1988) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive mystery · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured mystery / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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