Death Watch (La mort en direct)
- 1980
- 15
- Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
- Written by: Bertrand Tavernier, David Rayfiel
- Cast: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Max von Sydow
Katherine (Schneider) is a novelist living in Glasgow who's been diagnosed with a terminal disease; Roddy (Keitel) befriends her, but unknown to her he works for a TV company with its own agenda. The basic idea is amazingly prescient but the plot is rather preposterous; Schneider's moving performance anchors it in emotional reality.
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Death Watch
16 May 2012
Well-deserved re-issue of Bertrand Tavernier's prescient Glasgow-set sci-fi thriller
Its plot is a credibility stretch even in these days of de rigueur media paranoia, and its relentlessly murky, moody tone might raise the odd giggle, but Tavernier’s long-neglected sci-fi curiosity is compelling nonetheless. Romy Schneider plays…
GFF 2012 - Death Watch
2 Feb 2012
Bertrand Tavernier’s remarkable Glasgow-shot film foresaw the coming of voyeuristic TV
It’s arguably the best film ever shot in Scotland, but chances are you’ve never seen it. Directed in 1979 by French auteur Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the Country, Round Midnight) and set in the near future, Death Watch is a Glasgow-set sci-fi drama…
Search for those involved in Glasgow-shot 1980 film Death Watch
16 Jan 2012
Bertrand Tavernier's reality TV film set for 2012 Glasgow Film Festival
Glasgow Film Festival are appealing for anyone who worked on Bertrand Tavernier's film Death Watch in 1979 to get in touch before it is screened in February. Death Watch was filmed in Glasgow in 1979 and will be shown in cinemas nationwide this…
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