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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Format: NTSC
Region Code: 1
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-06
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - the fine line between love and obsession...
MONSIEUR HIRE is a small masterpiece of a thriller that has stood the passage of time very well. By allowing the characters to reveal themselves with subtlety and patience, and stressing their struggles (inner and outer) and their attempts to live with and liberate themselves from these struggles, rather than relying on setting and artifice, Patrice Leconte has removed the stifling effects of chronological and spatial imprisonment that mar so many otherwise well-made films. It has a contemporary ... Read More
Rating:  - "All I do is look"
It's been said that film, by its very nature, is a voyeuristic experience. We are, after all, not within the action itself; we're viewers who derive entertainment from the misery on screen, much like that of Schadenfreude. In "Monsieur Hire," we are, in a sense, voyeurs to a voyeur. As sexually-charged as the word may be, it is not sex that's at the forefront here, but rather the themes of aching loneliness and love, specifically the extent to which a person will go to assuage an emptiness that ... Read More
Rating: - Finally on DVD
This is one of those great but little seen foreign films that I managed to catch on Laserdisc probably 15 years ago. Great that it's now out on DVD. Strange, different story, told well..good transfer, okay audio.
Rating: - Men who love to much...Ouchh
Men who love to much...Ouchh!!
Monsieur Hire (1989-Dir Patrice Laconte).
It has been mentioned that Patrice Laconte is the best example of a non-stereotyped cinema in France,(What has been colled "Cinema de Auteur") Paradoxically a citizen in the Country in which such artistic category was born. But I complete disagree with that. Man and feelings in all the small and soft variation those are the main issue of Patrice Laconte films.
How is to be a man in our western ... Read More
Rating: - Overlooked Masterpiece
I know many people who have never heard of this film. What a shame. First time I saw this was on my VCR years ago and I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. Sandrine Bonnaire is enchanting, perhaps even hypnotic in her portrayal. Michel Blanc is just right for his part of the obsessive male lead. Recently saw Vertigo which is about obsessive love and although different I much prefer Monsieur Hire. This movie reminded me of Vertigo as far as mood and Bonnaire totally eclipses Kim Novak
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