Masks (1987 film)

Masks
Masks
	Film poster
Directed by	Claude Chabrol
Written by	Odile Barski; Claude Chabrol
Produced by	Marin Karmitz
Starring	Philippe Noiret; Robin Renucci
Cinematography	Jean Rabier
Edited by	Monique Fardoulis
Release date	11 February 1987;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Masks (French: Masques) is a 1987 French mystery thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol. It was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

Talent show host Christian Legagneur hires a young reporter, Roland Wolf, to write his biography. However, Wolf has ulterior motives - he is also investigating his sister's disappearance.

Cast

Philippe Noiret as Christian Legagneur
Robin Renucci as Roland Wolf
Bernadette Lafont as Patricia, La masseuse / The masseuse
Monique Chaumette as Colette, la secrétaire / The secretary
Anne Brochet as Catherine
Roger Dumas as Manu
Pierre-François Dumeniaud as Max
Pierre Nougaro as Gustave
Renée Dennsy as Émilie
Yvonne Décade as Antoinette
Blanche Ariel as Rosette
René Marjac as Maurice
Paul Vally as Henry
Denise Pezzani as Mme Lemonier

Reception

The film received mixed reviews. Time Out said "Chabrol frames the verbal sparring with characteristic precision, but the subtle plot suffers from a surfeit of politesse and a dearth of red-blooded passion."^[2] The New York Times called it "something practically unheard of in the vast Chabrol filmography: a thriller that satisfies the audience's expectations of a thriller, even including the childlike hope that good will be rewarded and evil punished", and added "although the suspense is skillfully engineered, you can't help feeling Mr. Chabrol's boredom with it."^[3] Jonathan Rosenbaum said it was "good, serviceable, quasi-Hitchcockian fun", but not especially memorable.^[4] Craig Williams on the BFI site was more positive: "The idea of the bourgeois mask concealing murderous impulses is prevalent throughout the director’s work, but there’s a streak of self-awareness in Masques... that marks this as one of his best films of the 80s."^[5]

References

^ "Berlinale: 1987 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
^ "Masques 1987, directed by Claude Chabrol | Film review". Time Out London. 10 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
^ Rafferty, Terrence (30 July 2006). "Chabrol is a Master of the Thriller (Hold the Thrills)". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (25 May 1989). "French Provincial". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
^ "Claude Chabrol: 10 essential films". British Film Institute. Retrieved 9 September 2019.

External links

Masks at IMDb

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[Berlinale-1] "Berlinale: 1987 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 28 February 2011.

[2] "Masques 1987, directed by Claude Chabrol | Film review". Time Out London. 10 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2019.

[3] Rafferty, Terrence (30 July 2006). "Chabrol is a Master of the Thriller (Hold the Thrills)". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 September 2019.

[4] Rosenbaum, Jonathan (25 May 1989). "French Provincial". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 10 September 2019.

[5] "Claude Chabrol: 10 essential films". British Film Institute. Retrieved 9 September 2019.

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