Night Moves (1975)
Country: US
Technical: col 99m
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns
Synopsis:
An L.A. private eye is employed by a faded movie actress to bring back her errant teenage daughter, who is mixed up with industry hangers-on running Aztec treasures out of Mexico to Florida. However, his judgement is clouded by the knowledge of his own wife's infidelity, and his own resultant vulnerability to feminine guile.
Review:
Penn's film builds on the tinseltown corruption of Chinatown and Hackman's other 'Harry' in The Conversation to conjure a reassessment of the private eye genre in post-Watergate America. Not only is our hero, perennially a single fella, 'emasculated' by matrimony, never mind cuckoldry, but his constant interrogation of the apparent truth can be interpreted as the mistrust felt by a society whose sense of security and faith in public office had been serially shaken by cover-up theories and scandal. The star holds the attention admirably well, and Penn directs in a manner that at times recalls The Parallax View, but the sexual politics are very much of their time, and the question mark ending a given.
Country: US
Technical: col 99m
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns
Synopsis:
An L.A. private eye is employed by a faded movie actress to bring back her errant teenage daughter, who is mixed up with industry hangers-on running Aztec treasures out of Mexico to Florida. However, his judgement is clouded by the knowledge of his own wife's infidelity, and his own resultant vulnerability to feminine guile.
Review:
Penn's film builds on the tinseltown corruption of Chinatown and Hackman's other 'Harry' in The Conversation to conjure a reassessment of the private eye genre in post-Watergate America. Not only is our hero, perennially a single fella, 'emasculated' by matrimony, never mind cuckoldry, but his constant interrogation of the apparent truth can be interpreted as the mistrust felt by a society whose sense of security and faith in public office had been serially shaken by cover-up theories and scandal. The star holds the attention admirably well, and Penn directs in a manner that at times recalls The Parallax View, but the sexual politics are very much of their time, and the question mark ending a given.
Country: US
Technical: col 99m
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns
Synopsis:
An L.A. private eye is employed by a faded movie actress to bring back her errant teenage daughter, who is mixed up with industry hangers-on running Aztec treasures out of Mexico to Florida. However, his judgement is clouded by the knowledge of his own wife's infidelity, and his own resultant vulnerability to feminine guile.
Review:
Penn's film builds on the tinseltown corruption of Chinatown and Hackman's other 'Harry' in The Conversation to conjure a reassessment of the private eye genre in post-Watergate America. Not only is our hero, perennially a single fella, 'emasculated' by matrimony, never mind cuckoldry, but his constant interrogation of the apparent truth can be interpreted as the mistrust felt by a society whose sense of security and faith in public office had been serially shaken by cover-up theories and scandal. The star holds the attention admirably well, and Penn directs in a manner that at times recalls The Parallax View, but the sexual politics are very much of their time, and the question mark ending a given.