L'étrangleur

A film like a wild poem: L'étrangleur by Paul Vecchiali is one of the most original French genre films of the 1970s. In the dark of the night, the deeply traumatised Émile uses a white scarf to strangle women who are tired of their lives. An unconventional police inspector takes up the investigation and a young woman volunteers to act as bait. L'étrangleur is one of Paul Vecchiali's most beautiful and personal films. Instead of following the giallo or polar trends that were popular at the time, Vecchiali harks back to the cinema of the 1930s and transports the poetic realism of those years to 1970s France. "L'étrangleur is a film about the magic of the night. A night one can dive into like a pond’s green water." (Le Monde)

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