Barocco (1976)

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Directed by

André Téchiné

Starring (View all)

Isabelle Adjani
Laure

Gérard Depardieu
Samson / Samson's Killer

Marie-France Pisier
Nelly

Jean-Claude Brialy
Walt

Julien Guiomar
Gauthier

Hélène Surgère
Antoinette

Jean-François Stévenin
Jeune homme brun

Peter Bonke
Acolyte 1

Written by

André Téchiné

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Description: Téchiné's demonstrated his flair for richly textured, atmospheric storytelling with his next film, the aptly titled thriller Barocco (1976), a crime drama, rooted in expressionist surrealism. A boxer who has accepted and then turned down a huge bribe from a politician to tell a lie that will influence an election is killed by a hired assassin, the boxer's girlfriend, eventually falls in love with the killer while trying to remake him into the image of her slain lover. The film could not be more aptly named: it is "baroque" in both its convoluted plot and its elaborate camera movements and widescreen framings resembli ... (more)

Release date: 8 December 1976
UPC: 825307904499

Tags: 1976 (2), Drama (1), Thriller (1), Romance (1), Crime (1), French (1), France (1), Foreign Language (1)

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