AGENT TROUBLE
Jean-Pierre Mocky’s Agent Trouble suggests that «the authorities» in collusion with a water company simply murder a busload of tourists to hush up the accidental contamination of the drinking water in the Alsace region. This proposition is worked out in the form of a thriller with a passer-by who discovers a bus full of corpses and, intrigued by the television news bulletin which gives a false account of the event, sets out to try and make money out of his discovery. His is shot by a mysterious agent of the state but his aunt (Catherine Deneuve wearing a red wig and glasses) continues the investigation with the help of her ex-lover. She survives only because the killer has a heart attack while pursuing her through the snow-covered mountains.
Jean-Pierre Mocky, a cinephile who likes to evoke the classic Hollywood masters in his movies, achieved a moody looking thriller with quirky, stylised performances, sometimes recalling Jacques Tourneur’s Nightfall. He also plays the role of a sinister state official. (Paul Willemen, The BFI Companion to Crime)
- Catherine Deneuve - Amanda Weber
- Richard Bohringer - Alex
- Tom Novembre - Victorien
- Dominique Lavanant - Karen
- Pierre Arditi - Stanislas
- Kristin Scott Thomas - Julie
- Jean-Pierre Mocky nach dem Roman «The Man Who Loved Zoos» von Malcolm Bosse
- William Lubtchansky
- Jean-Bernard Thomasson
- Jean-Pierre Mocky
- Gabriel Yared
- Michèle Abbe
- Caroline De Vivaise
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