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La Mort En Direct

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La Mort En Direct
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R,2hrs 8min
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Release:
1980
Director:
Bertrand Tavernier
Starring:
Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton  ...more
Synopsis: Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch. Harvey Keitel plays a man of the future who has had a camera implanted in his brain. The mechanism, which is endowed with special X-ray properties, is activated by the user's eyes. Keitel is assigned by ruthless TV producer Harry Dean Stanton to secretly probe the subconscious of a dying woman, played by Romy Schneider. Stanton is only interested in the grim spectacle of what ... Full Synopsis
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Nathan Southern, AMG Review
Helmed by director Bertrand Tavernier, from an English-language script he co-authored with David Rayfiel (adapted from David Compton's 1975 science fiction novel The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe), Death Watch revamps themes explored by Rayfiel in his screenplay for Lipstick. Both pictures, in their own ways, probe the issues of media voyeurism and contemporary society's male-driven, chauvinistic ... Full Review
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Romy Schneider
Katherine Mortenhoe
Harvey Keitel
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Harry Dean Stanton
Vincent Ferriman
Therese Liotard
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