Drama · Thriller · Crime
British
1984 · Directed by Stephen Frears · 98 min
Ten years after betraying his old criminal associates in court, an English informer living quietly in Spain is collected by two professional killers. They have to drive him to Paris, and almost nothing about the trip goes to plan. A dry, sunbaked thriller that works as much as a study of fate as a chase.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining British crime film of the early 1980s. It helped redirect the genre away from London gangland realism toward stranger, more philosophical territory.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a power struggle in which the person under threat is the one who seems most in control.
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