Monsieur Hire is a 1989 French film

Cinema of France

The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions. Several important cinematic movements, including the Nouvelle...

 directed by Patrice Leconte

Patrice Leconte

Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...

 and starring Michel Blanc

Michel Blanc

Michel Blanc is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs...

 in the title role and Sandrine Bonnaire

Sandrine Bonnaire

Sandrine Bonnaire is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films including Hollywood movies.Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in...

 as the object of his affection. The film received numerous accolades as well as a glowing review from popular American movie commentator Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

. The film is based on Belgian-born French writer Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 200 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known for the creation of the fictional detective Maigret.-Early life and education:...

's novel. Simenon wrote many popular detective books. Original music by Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

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The film was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival

1989 Cannes Film Festival

- Jury :*Wim Wenders *Christine Gouze-Renal*Claude Beylie*Georges Delerue*Hector Babenco*Krzysztof Kieślowski*Peter Handke*Renée Blanchar*Sally Field*Silvio Clementelli-Feature film competition:* Chimère by Claire Devers...

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Synopsis

A misanthropic voyeuristic tailor, Monsieur Hire, spies on his gorgeous neighbour from across the street. This takes place in the backdrop of another plot, the unsolved murder of a local young woman. Monsieur Hire is hounded by a detective investigating the murder and is also eventually noticed by the object of his gaze, the young woman Alice. Monsieur Hire propositions Alice to ditch her boyfriend Emile, and run off with him to his little home in Switzerland, where he promises to take care of her.

Cast and roles

• Michel Blanc
  Michel Blanc
  Michel Blanc is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs...
  
   - Monsieur Hire
• Sandrine Bonnaire
  Sandrine Bonnaire
  Sandrine Bonnaire is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films including Hollywood movies.Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in...
  
   - Alice
• Luc Thuillier
  Luc Thuillier
  -Filmography:Cinema* 1985 : Hors-la-loi by Robin Davis with Clovis Cornillac* 1985 : Rouge baiser by Véra Belmont with Lambert Wilson* 1986 : Cours privé by Pierre Granier-Deferre with Élizabeth Bourgine...
  
   - Emile
• André Wilms
  André Wilms
  André Wilms is a French film and television actor who has also appeared in German and Finnish films. Wilms was the winner of the Best Supporting European Actor award at the 1992 European Film Awards for his work in Aki Kaurismäki's La Vie de Bohème.-Partial filmography:* Le tartuffe * Field of...
  
   - Inspector
• Eric Bérenger
• Marielle Berthon
• Philippe Dormoy
• Marie Gaydu
• Michel Morano
• Nora Noël
• Cristiana Réali
  Cristiana Reali
  -Biography:Emigrated to France along with her family at a young age. She graduated from the Lycée Moliėre in Paris , then studied theater under her future husband, Francis Huster in the Cours Florent....
  
  
• Bernard Soufflet
• André Bauduin
• Rozeen Landrevie
• Jacques Violeur

External links

• IMDb entry
• http://kirjasto.sci.fi/simenon.htm