See the movie 'Panique' instead
Check out the 1947 adaptation of the same Simenon novel by Julien Duvivier and Charles Spaak. You'll understand the motivations of each character much better.
shareThe motivations in Monsieur Hire are quite clear thank you. It is a perfect film that is sparse, economical and concentrated with a ton of repressed emotion and lies.
I am free. But life is so cheap.
Lot of differences between the films.Panique follows the book much more closely.I like both films.The only change in M. Hire that I didn't care for was leaving behind the bloody jacket for the inspector to find to prove his innocence.In the book this doesn't happen.Everyone(Except for the guilty parties)think that M. Hire is the real culprit.
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Thanks for telling me the ending of Panique. Now I don't have to watch it.
The mystery angle is the least important reason to watch this movie.
It doesn't matter if you know that bit or not. It's almost a sidebar to the story but adds to the laundry list of character flaws M. Hire appears to have.
Watch it. It's a great piece of cinema.
I don't pretend to understand how this film drew me in. But it was a riveting experience. I found some scenes literally breath-taking.
This is the kind of film I have in mind when I tell people how much I love movies.
"The night was sultry."
This is the kind of film I have in mind when I tell people how much I love movies.Me too. I saw this in 1990 at a student film club and was mesmerised by it. The second time I saw it was in 2008, at home, not long after my dad had died. That watch was profoundly intense and I found Monsieur Hire's fate devastating.
Fatima had a fetish for a wiggle in her scootshare