Le Dossier 51 (Deville, 1978): Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, 7.30pm
Here's a rarity. Like Gilles Perrault’s
book on which it is based, Michel Deville’s seminal 1978 film, Le Dossier 51,
is “composed entirely of secret films, tape recordings, written and
oral reports of agents who write and talk in the jargon of their
trade.” Sounds intriguing . . .
Time Out review:
'An effectively sinister paranoid thriller, an
exercise in voyeuristic point-of-view which consists almost entirely of
the detailed surveillance file constructed by a foreign intelligence
agency in an attempt to 'turn' a totally unwitting minor French
diplomat. A sleek technocratic nightmare of the impossibility of
maintaining privacy, it plays fearfully ambiguous games with its
audience, inviting complicity in piecing together manipulatable
'evidence', while advising the wisdom of an over-the-shoulder glance,
and reveals even such ostensibly healing techniques as psychoanalysis to
be easily amenable to annexation to the impersonal mechanics of
espionage. Compelling ammunition for the 'information is power'
anti-databank lobby.' Paul Taylor
Here's a snapshot. You'll like it
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