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Vidocq

“To look into his mask was to lose your soul.”

2001 · 1 h 38 min
Directed by Pitof · France · Contemporary European Art Cinema
FantasyActionThrillerCrime

Cast

Gérard Depardieu Guillaume Canet Inés Sastre André Dussollier Edith Scob Moussa Maaskri

Credits

Written by: Eugène-François Vidocq

Plot

Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months.

Sinekatalog’s take

A famous detective vanishes while hunting a masked killer in nineteenth-century Paris. Digital visuals give it a dreamlike, comic-book texture, though the plot is secondary to style. Worth sampling for fans of stylised French fantasy thrillers.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

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Awards

Ratings

IMDb: 6.4 / 10 (24,178 votes)
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