Panique
54th New York Film Festival
September 30 - 11, 2016
Julien Duvivier’s first postwar project was this adaptation of Georges Simenon’s Mr. Hire’s Engagement starring Michel Simon as a reviled voyeur framed for a murder by the girl he adores.
“If I were an architect and I had to build a monument to the cinema,” wrote Jean Renoir, “I would place a statue of Julien Duvivier above the entrance.” Duvivier made 70 films between 1919 and 1967, many of them landmarks of French cinema. His first postwar project, a noir adaptation of Georges Simenon’s Mr. Hire’s Engagement (later adapted by Patrice Leconte as Monsieur Hire), stars Michel Simon as a reviled voyeur framed for a murder by the girl he adores. Now widely considered the finest Simenon adaptation but criticized at the time for its bleakness, the long-unseen Panique has finally been given the vivid restoration it deserves. A Rialto Pictures release.
Restored from a nitrate interpositive by TF1 Droits Audiovisuels at Digimage.
Panique
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