The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Direction
Polanski weaponizes Parisian geography against the protagonist.
Cinematography
Rain-soaked noir lighting on actual French locations.
Acting
Ford's desperate everyman against Seigner's opaque magnetism.
Director
Roman Polanski
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