A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.
Acting
Lambert Wilson's unsettling, magnetic blindness performance
Direction
Palud's sensory deprivation sound design
Writing
Inversion of detective-suspect power dynamics
Director
Xavier Palud
Jacques Gamblin
Le Commandant Lassalle
Lambert Wilson
Narvik
Raphaëlle Agogué
Héloïse
Arnaud Cosson
Vermulen
David Capelle
Marchand
Antoine Levannier
Simon
Frédéric Kontogom
Briand
Marie Vincent
Rochambeau
Dorothée Brière
Femme Lassalle
Sebastien Vandenberghe
Videur
Miglen Mirtchev
Constantin
Elsa Kikoïne
Isabelle Royer
Arthur Moncla
Alexandre
Yaniss Lespert
Dominique
Agnès Delachair
Prostituée
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wilson spent two months training with France's Institut des Jeunes Aveugles, learning to navigate spaces without sight cues.
The title's French original 'L'Homme qui rit' nods to Victor Hugo—Narvik's fixed expressions hide calculated menace beneath apparent helplessness.
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