Cast
Emmanuel Salinger 
Valérie Dréville
Credits
Written by: 
Arnaud Desplechin
Plot
His feature debut, which premiered at Cannes. Known in French as La Sentinelle.
Sinekatalog’s take
Arnaud Desplechin's debut features a young medical student who comes home with a severed head in a suitcase and gets entangled in Cold War spying. Strange, stylish and cerebral, it announced a major filmmaker with a very personal voice.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.4 / 10 (972 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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