2001 · thriller · fantasy · mystery
Vidocq
Directed by Pitof1h 38m2001
Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...
Our read: Vidocq (2001) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · fantasy · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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