The Cry of the Owl(Le cri du hibou)
Dir: Claude Chabrol
Italy/France, 1987, French, 102mins, DCP
Cast: Christophe Malavoy, Mathilda May, Jacques Penot, Virginie Thévenet
Entangled in an imminent divorce, a draftsman flees to the countryside, where he begins spying a beautiful young woman. When her fiancé goes missing, the peeping tom becomes a prime suspect for murder. Highsmith's cynical love of criminality is the perfect match with Chabrol's critical view of the bourgeois in this knotty and intricately crafted thriller, in which the novel's unpredictable and sometimes outlandish plot twists are grounded by Chabrol's measured pacing and precision. As suspenseful as it is darkly humourous, it reverberates with Fritz Lang's classic theme of man's struggle against fate.
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
2022-12-03 (Sat)
16:452022-12-26 (Mon)
21:30
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
MOViE MOViE
CINE FAN ONLINE
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
Broadway Hollywood
Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction