Death Watch
Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch. Harvey Keitel plays a man of the future who has had a camera implanted in his brain. The mechanism, which is endowed with special X-ray properties, is activated by the user's eyes. Keitel is assigned by ruthless TV producer Harry Dean Stanton to secretly probe the subconscious of a dying woman, played by Romy Schneider. Stanton is only interested in the grim spectacle of what goes on inside the brain of someone who knows she's doomed. Keitel, on the other hand, becomes increasingly compassionate--and disgusted by the tawdriness of his assignment--as he stares into Schneider's tortured psyche.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Therese Liotard, Max von Sydow
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Bertrand Tavernier
Berlin International Film Festival (1980)
Best Feature
Chicago International Film Festival (1980)
Best Cinematography (Meilleure photographie)
César Awards, France (1981)
Best Performance in a Foreign Film (Mejor Interpretación en Película Extranjera)
Sant Jordi Awards (1982)
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