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Le sense de l’objet – Regard Caméra
Peeping Tom
1960 / UK / 101min / Color / Blu-ray
Director: Michael Powell
Writers: Leo Marks
Cinematography: Otto Heller
Art Director: Arthur Lawson
Music: Brian Easdale
Cast: Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
What sort of expressions do people make in the face of tremendous fear?
At first glance, Mark Lewis, a camera assistant on a film crew, seems like a perfectly ordinary young man. In fact, he is devising a series of horrifying crimes. Mark’s late father dedicated his life to researching fear, using his young son as a guinea pig. Having now reached manhood, he is tremendously attracted to women’s facial expressions as they shudder with fear in the throes of death. Ahead of its time in depicting the psychological state of a homicidal maniac, the film ranks with Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho as a milestone of psycho horror. This controversial yet masterful work was directed by the legendary Michael Powell.