The Sentinel
1998VOTE NOW
| Pan Européenne Distribution | Release Date: October 16, 1998 |
Starring:
Bruno Todeschini, Emmanuel Salinger, Emmanuelle Devos, Fabrice Desplechin, Jean-Louis Richard, Jean-Luc Boutté, Marianne Denicourt, Philippe Duclos, Thibault de Montalembert, Valérie Dréville
Summary:
A medical student returning to France finds himself mixed up in a dark affair of espionage between the Eastern and Western blocs, involving agents of the DGSE (French foreign intelligence service).
Although the drama doesn't quite live up to its early promise, much of it is emotionally involving and intellectually stimulating. [22 May 1992, p.12]
While La Sentinelle is often a lively shaggy-dog story, it ultimately isn't much more than that. [01 Jan 1999]
More than two hours in length, The Sentinel packs too much into a weird tale that shifts ground between political thriller and psychological drama -- too much to be completely comprehensible except to Desplechin himself. It would require a severe editing job to rescue it, even for the friendly art-house crowd. [19 May 1992]
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