The Eavesdropper

2016 [FRENCH]

Action / Mystery / Thriller

1
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 2771 2.8K

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Plot summary

Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is offered a simple and well-paid job: transcribing telephone tapping. Duval accepts financially without questioning the purpose of the organization that employs him. Precipitated at the heart of a political plot, he must face the brutal mechanics of the underground world of the secret services.

Director

Thomas Kruithof Photo
Thomas Kruithof

Top cast

Simon Abkarian Photo
Simon Abkarian as Gerfaut
Sami Bouajila Photo
Sami Bouajila as Labarthe
François Cluzet Photo
François Cluzet as Duval
Alba Rohrwacher Photo
Alba Rohrwacher as Sara
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834.58 MB
1280*536
French 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 1
1.67 GB
1920*804
French 5.1
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by myriamlenys 7 / 10

a man getting dragged into a terrible machine

Reviewed by t-dooley-69-386916 6 / 10

Atmospheric French Thriller that can be a bit predictable

Scribe or ' La mécanique de l'ombre' is a Film starring Francois Cluzet ('Untouchable') as an accountant who loses his job after a bit of a meltdown. He takes two years to get his life back on track and then receives a telephone call one night offering him a job.Well he hardly has anything better to do so he accepts despite there being some very strict rules – but all he has to do really is type out transcripts of telephone conversations. What at first seems like an easy gig soon takes on a much darker hue when he realises what is being revealed in the tapped phone calls.Now this is really well made and the acting is superb. The plot is original up to a point and the direction and cinematography are professional and I really liked it as a film. However, it suffers from the thriller disease in that it has to have a few twists and a climactic end etc. I sort of spotted them all - except one and so for me it did tread a path that appeared a tad well worn. Despite that it is still a film with much to applaud hence my rating.
Reviewed by jonathan-harris17 6 / 10

Befuddling plot, solid cast

A film with an intriguing first half hour and set-up, a 70s-style spy thriller with mysterious shadow figures, typewriters and cassette recordings, that loses its way as it dives down into an incomprehensible labyrinthine political head-scratcher.The muted, stripped down palette and sets and the very intentional non-digital central setup of an accountant transcribing cassette taps does remind of past films like The Conversation.As it moves on however the initial setup does largely seem like a gimmick to have a base to move off from.The main reason to keep watching for me is the always-engaging Cluzet. Often called upon to play the 'everyman' in his films (e.g. Tell No One), here he plays Duval very downtrodden - unhappy with his working life, attending AA meetings and living a seemingly very solitary, structured life. And yet when he's embroiled into criminality, he's always believable. He struggles, a fish out of water, usually to be beaten back and really gave me my only reason to keep watching: I wanted to see what would happen to Duval.A pity given the main parlour games between shadow operatives seeking for 'the notebooks' had lost my interest well before the 87mins were done but there's also nothing especially off-putting going on either.
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