The Night Caller
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Jean Letellier, a detective distracted by an old case that ruined his career, must investigate a serial killer who contacts women by phone before murdering them.
Henri Verneuil
Henri Verneuil was a French film director and screenwriter of Armenian origin. Surviving the Armenian genocide with his family, he grew up in Marseille and began directing short films after studying engineering and spending several years in journalism. He transitioned to feature film thanks to Fernandel, and became known for directing the comedic star in nine films in the 1950s, culminating in the international success of The Cow and I (1959). From the 1960s to the 1980s, he directed films, often spectacular ones, some of which became classics, including A Monkey in Winter (1962), Any Number Can Win (1963), The Sicilian Clan (1969), The Burglars (1971), Fear Over the City (1975), and I… For Icarus (1979). He worked with some of the biggest names in French cinema such as Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, and Lino Ventura. Fascinated and influenced by the United States, his success led him to make two films in Hollywood. Despite being underestimated by critics for his popular cinema, he was nominated in 1956 for an Academy Award for Best Story for The Sheep Has Five Legs. He was awarded the Honorary César in 1996 for his entire career. Henri Verneuil remains the French director with the highest number of viewers in theaters with over 91 million admissions in France.
