Point Blank
John Boorman
Accompanied by his wife, Walker has to get back a loot of 93,000 dollars from the abandoned prison of Alcatraz for Reese. The operation succeeds, but Reese kills Walker before taking off his widow, that he has admired for a long time, with him. But Walker is not actually dead, and is very soon filled with an unquenchable urge for revenge...
With : Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Strong, John Vernon
Screenplay : Alexander Jacobs, David Newhouse, Rafe Newhouse, d'après le roman de Richard Stark (pseudonyme de Donald Westlake)
Image : Philip H. Lathrop
Sound : Franklin Milton
Music : Johnny Mandel
Editing : Henry Berman
Decors : Keogh Gleason, Henry Grace
Screenplay : Alexander Jacobs, David Newhouse, Rafe Newhouse, d'après le roman de Richard Stark (pseudonyme de Donald Westlake)
Image : Philip H. Lathrop
Sound : Franklin Milton
Music : Johnny Mandel
Editing : Henry Berman
Decors : Keogh Gleason, Henry Grace
Production : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distribution: Solaris Distribution
Distribution: Solaris Distribution
John Boorman is British and worked in TV. However, Point Blank is a typically American in its design, sets and characters. In this film everything is sacrificed for the sake of pace, movement, efficiency. By taking a minimal narrative as a basis, Boorman uses processes which, through a subtle game of flash-backs and flash-forwards, shakes up the linearity of the narrative. The influence of modern European cinema can be seen, with first and foremost Alain Resnais' experiments on time. Scrambling of perception, the will for distance, the oscillation between a realistic universe and a mental world... With Point Blank, the film noir finds a happy balance between tribute and modernity.