This Man Must Die (1969)
- Original title
- Que la bête meure
- Directed by
- Claude Chabrol
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 181 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A widower sets out to find the driver who killed his son in a hit-and-run. He becomes fixated on revenge and plans to murder the man responsible.
tensemethodicalgrimbroodingsuspensefuldarkmelancholicdeliberate
What happens
This Man Must Die (French: Que la bête meure), also titled Killer! in the UK, is a 1969 French–Italian psychological thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol. It is based on the 1938 novel The Beast Must Die by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing as Nicholas Blake. The story follows a widower who, obsessed with revenge after his only son is killed in a hit-and-run incident, tracks down the driver with the intent to kill him. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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