Panique

Sordid, intriguingly nasty! A near-perfect film.
-- Pauline Kael

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Panique

"If I were an architect and I had to build a monument to the cinema," wrote Jean Renoir, "I would place a statue of Julien Duvivier above the entrance." Duvivier made 70 films between 1919 and 1967, many of them landmarks of French cinema. His first postwar project, a noir adaptation of Georges Simenon's Mr. Hire's Engagement (later adapted by Patrice Leconte as Monsieur Hire), stars Michel Simon as a reviled voyeur framed for a murder by the girl he adores. Now widely considered the finest Simenon adaptation but criticized at the time for its bleakness, the long-unseen PANIQUE has finally been given the vivid restoration it deserves.

Awards and Nominations:
Official Selection - Retrospective (54th New York Film Festival)
Not Rated
Genre
French Cinema, Repertory, Thriller
Runtime
91
Language
French
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer(s)
Charles Spaak, Julien Duvivier, Georges Simenon
Cast
Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Paul Bernard
FEATURED REVIEW
Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice

There’s precious little “panique” in Julien Duvivier’s 1947 masterpiece 'Panique.' Rather, it’s more of a gleeful hysteria, as the film traces the cloud of suspicion that gathers around a lonely, eccentric man until it explodes in a frenzy of surreal mob violence. Based on Georges Simenon’s 1933 ...

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