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La Sentinelle
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781572525931
Format: Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1572525932
Label: Fox Lorber
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: August 01, 2000
Running Time: 139 minutes
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: October 16, 1998
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Editorial Review:
Mathias (Emmanuel Salinger), a medical intern, finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage. This discovery soon consumes his life, as he becomes obsessed with uncovering its origins, Mathias becomes a target for the French Secret Service who will do anything to protect their secrets.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Real French Bore !
A poorly made film, unfortunately. The story-line has much potential but the direction has taken it from a potentially entertaining film into the ranks of the "French Bores of the Year" !
Rating:  - Subtle, symbolic
The son of a diplomat (read espionage agent) chooses to become a pathologist and in turn treats the individuals he meets with more dignity and respect than the world of diplomats that surround him.
Mathias is not easily shaken, as one imagines a pathologist would be. Caught in the middle of international espionage, he acts with confidence and consistency, keeping the spies at bay while he hurries to identify the head that has come into his keeping.
The film has a subtle yet deliberate ... Read More
Rating: - Head Games.....
This review refers to the DVD(Fox Lorber)edition of "La Sentinelle"......
Mathias, a reserved, quiet student of Forensic Pathology, is returning to France after completing his studies in Germany.Before reaching Paris, he is stopped for what seems to be a routine but threatening border check. After being questioned by a mysterious agent, he is found to be harmless, he is released,and as far as he's concerned it's over and done with...that is until he finds a very unusal item in his ... Read More
Rating:  - Fine Excellent Non-American View of the Cold War's Last Days
This movie is ambiented in the months before the natural(provoqued?) collapse of the Soviet Union in a country (France) where the last dirty battles between West and East are being played at expense of lifes and fortunes on both sides. The film is not short in denouncing snippets of high level corruption in the West (eg. Churchill conniving with Stalin in the WWII and the 'necessary' elimination -in the West- of 'dissenting' refugees of the East). This fact alone distinguish the film of
thousands ... Read More
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