Scribe (La Mécanique de l'ombre) (NR)

synopsis

A paranoid thriller in the spirit of '70s pics such as Marathon Man and The Conversation, the film was originally inspired by the 1983-1984 Lebanon hostage crisis, in which three French people were kidnapped and their release was allegedly withheld by the French government so that it would benefit presidential candidate Jacques Chirac, who was then prime minister.