The read
Critics rate it 29 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives in Lyon with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and inform him that Bernard has killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realises that he knew far less about his son than he thought.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 29 points higher than audiences do.
121 audience votes
Key crew
- Bertrand TavernierDirector
- Philippe SardeOriginal Music Composer
- Pierre BostWriter
- Bertrand TavernierWriter
- Jean AurencheWriter
Cast
- Philippe NoiretMichel Descombes
- Jean RochefortCommissioner Guilboud
- Jacques DenisAntoine, friend of Michel
- Yves AfonsoInspector Bricard
- Julien BertheauEdouard, friend of Michel
- Jacques HillingCostes, journalist
- Clotilde JoanoJanine Boitard, journalist
- Andrée TainsyMadeleine Fourmet
- William SabatierLawyer
- Cécile VassortMartine, workwoman
- Sylvain RougerieBernard Descombes, Michel's son
- Christine PascalLiliane Torrini, companion of Bernard
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Themes
paris, franceparent child relationshipkommissar geigerwatchmakermurder huntlyon france