A King Without Distraction

Un roi sans divertissement

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.

Director

François Leterrier

Screenplay

Jean Giono

Music

Maurice Jarre

Novela

Jean Giono

Status

Released

Release date

30/08/1963

Original language

French