I... For Icarus (1979)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Sadly Over-hyped

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I have always heard that France is more liberal since 80s and that before, censorship was the way of life. If it's true , then why France avoids since to produce movies that makes people think and why the old cinema is more challenging ? This movie is the perfect proof : done in 1979, it's an extraordinary fiction about the JFK assassination and like Stone's movie, the big names are here : Verneuil as director and Montand as attorney ! Maybe this is the trail of my hobby for this case because this movie totally gripped me when i discovered it as a kid ! This fictive case is as opaque as the real one and reaches the same conclusion with involving the firms. Visually, the movie is astonishing because like the french comedy « Who killed Pamela Rose », the location are french but looks like America ! In addition, you will find a true classic moment of filmmaking with the scientific experiment about authority ! In conclusion, this movie, helping to understand the modern « democracy », is a sane therapy for every citizen: so try to forget the E … for entertainment that we are fed up daily !

Yves Montand plays the role of a prosecutor who takes an investigation into the murder of the president JFK.The film is based on the allegory of Icarus: if it is closer to the truth, it burns the wings. But in general, this film is a fierce critic of power in modern societies approach and particularly how power, whatever it may be, can bring a nobody to perform acts of great cruelty.The film stages Milgram's experiments that have fascinated, that seems much based on this scientific demonstration of the human capacity to submit to authority.

Highly memorable, intelligent and suspenseful movie from one of French movies' true geniuses, the formidably able Henri Verneuil. The plot is an exact parallel of the JFK assassination, and takes place in a non-descript, fictional country. The film, visually as well as plot-wise, is razor-sharp. Shot with meticulous precision, it follows Henry Volnay, the Procuror who takes on himself to unravel the coup. In many ways, it's a very disturbing movie, not the least for the cold and analytical precision of its comment on a so-called modern state's inner workings. The atmosphere and characters are all utterly believable, and Verneuil left nothing to chance in its tight plotting. On another level, this relatively little-known movie just had a 15 years head-start on Oliver Stone, who was acclaimed for the "JFK" movie, a inferior film in many areas, the least of which not being credibility...It's a masterpiece, any cinema lover should see it, preferably in its original French version with subs.

of course, even though we are talking about a French movie here. It should quite obvious to anyone who saw the movie that the Dallas shooting at JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald are the starting point of the story.One of the judges in charge of the inquiry (Yves Montand) decides he does not agree with the conclusions of the committee he is a member of. Then trouble begins...One of Verneuil's best movies, if you ask me. The other ones would be "Le corps de mon ennemi" and "Peur sur la ville." (Belmondo rules, and so does Marie-France Pisier!).