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A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.
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- 4 wins & 1 nomination
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- TriviaThe house where Michel meets the old lady who took care of his son is the house where Bertrand Tavernier lived his childhood with his parents during WWII. René Tavernier was a friend of Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet.
- GoofsAt 33:08' a waiter enters the police station with a tray with four beers. Camera cuts to the adjacent office and when it returns, there are only two beer bottles left.
- Crazy creditsto Jacques Prevert
- ConnectionsEdited into Le documentaire culturel: Le siècle de Simenon (2014)
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Lyons is the star of the film
The star of this film is the city of Lyons, which looks absolutely magnificent. The problem with the film is that it rambles along until the son is finally captured and tried, and is reconciled with his father. The father doesn't seem to know what's going on at the start or how he feels about his son, before eventually deciding that he wants him to escape. But the film just seems to drift from one encounter to another, with the policeman, with his friend, with the press, with his son's girlfriend's workmates, with the woman who helped bring his son up. Perhaps the director is trying to show what it's like to be waiting for news in such a situation and the sense of not being able to do anything about it. Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort are both excellent in portraying sympathetic characters. The son and girlfriend are also portrayed as sympathetic - although we are never explicitly told why they committed the murder, their victim is shown to have been a nasty piece of work. The almost documentary style is in contrast to the cinematic style of other Simenon adaptations such as "Monsieur Hire" and "The Hatter's Ghost". No intrusive music as in "Monsieur Hire" for example.
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- The Clockmaker of St. Paul
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- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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