Search: Directed by Bertrand Tavernier

Bertrand Tavernier’s 1980 curio Death Watch remains a chilly and enigmatic film, one which is hard to love but not hard to admire.

Carre and Gamblin infuse their performances with an intimacy that feels real.

The fusion of the crime thriller’s grim reality with the otherworldly fantasy of the ghostly confederate army is, for the most part, very effective.

This is a serious subject, expertly handled.

This film is not an encyclopedia entry but a living, breathing adventure ride into French cinema through the eyes and ears of the filmmaker.

The film has a simple message - bureaucracy is a bad mother.

Bertrand Tavernier has crafted a magnificent piece of work.

The twisting narrative is rendered skilfully so that it is easy to follow even as allegiences and alliances shift, and there is plenty of space to revel in the complexity of the characters.

Tavernier creates a picture without a frame.

Bertrand Tavernier has created a quiet little film, so quiet that it fails to communicate much at all.