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\"ZDirector:<\/strong> Costa-Gavras<\/a><\/p>\n

Writers:<\/strong> Vasilis Vasilikos<\/a> (novel), Jorge Sempr\u00fan<\/a> (dialogue)<\/p>\n

Cinematography:<\/strong> Raoul Coutard <\/a><\/p>\n

Music:<\/strong> Mikis Theodorakis<\/a><\/p>\n

Orchestrator:<\/strong> Bernard G\u00e9rard<\/a><\/p>\n

Sound editing:<\/strong> Mich\u00e8le Bo\u00ebhm<\/a><\/p>\n

Stars:<\/strong> Yves Montand<\/a>, Irene Papas<\/a>, Jean-Louis Trintignant<\/a>, Fran\u00e7ois P\u00e9rier,<\/a> Jacques Perrin<\/a>, Charles Denner<\/a>, Bernard Fresson<\/a>, Marcel Bozzuffi<\/a>, Renato Salvatori<\/a><\/p>\n

Z \u2013 A Look Back<\/em><\/h2>\n

By Walt Mundkowsky<\/em><\/p>\n

Costa-Gavras\u2019 Z <\/em><\/strong>predisposes one to admire it, as the first film to indict the brutal military regime in Greece; in fact, the music by the long-imprisoned Mikis Theodorakis had to be smuggled out of the country. From the bitter opening title card (\u201cAny similarity to actual events, or persons living or dead is not coincidental. It is intentional\u201d) our sympathies are engaged. And Z<\/em><\/strong> is remarkably well made; not once in its 127 minutes does it relax its grip. As a political statement, however, the movie is suspect, and its style calls into question the use of melodrama for political ends.<\/p>\n

\"a<\/p>\n

On May 22, 1963, Gregorios Lambrakis, a professor of medicine at the University of Athens and deputy of the liberal EDA (United Democratic Left) party, went to Salonika to address a Friends of Peace rally. Leaving the meeting, he was run down by a pickup truck and died several days later. Thanks to a young investigating magistrate with extraordinary integrity and a passion for truth, the \u201caccident\u201d was unmasked as an assassination plotted by high-ranking officers in the gendarmerie and carried out by an organization of the extreme Right. The resulting scandal toppled the ineffectual right-center Karamanlis government. Vassilis Vassilikos, an important Greek novelist and a native Salonikan, wrote a semi-documentary novel around the Lambrakis affair; he titled it Z<\/i><\/b>, symbol of the Lambrakis supporters, for the Greek verb zei<\/i><\/b> \u2014 \u201che lives.\u201d Z<\/i><\/b> was banned shortly after the military takeover and Vassilikos fled to Paris. This is the film of his book.<\/p>\n

\"a<\/p>\n

Z<\/em><\/strong> seems not so much shot as snared: The camera is frequently on the move, hurrying after the characters; no recent movie has such a pronounced sense of forward motion. Lately, in Chabrol\u2019s Les biches<\/em><\/strong> and much Godard, or in Easy Rider<\/em><\/strong> and Zabriskie<\/em><\/strong> Point<\/em><\/strong>, the traveling camera has seemed like so much doodling. Costa-Gavras satisfies Roy Armes\u2019 view of Resnais\u2019 tracking shots: \u201cThe camera is the eye of an investigator moving forward to see for himself, at first hand \u2014 the director sizing up his subject.\u201d Raoul Coutard\u2019s fluid Eastmancolor camerawork here is a cohesive mix of rough, slightly newsreel-like exteriors and highly composed and lit interiors. Dozens of stunning images result \u2014 the shimmering telephoto of Z\u2019s (played by Yves Montand) plane landing, the zoom lens stabbing down an aisle to focus on the X-rays of Z\u2019s skull fracture, the angled long shot of a virtually deserted hospital ward. Or the photographer\u2019s entrance into the film, the camera drawing back from a screen-filling close-up of his 35 mm. Canon\u2019s lens. Pretty pictures edited with a ruthless hand.<\/p>\n

Sound editor Mich\u00e8le Bo\u00ebhm has assembled an exciting, urgent soundtrack. The hard-driving, heavily percussive Theodorakis score greatly assists the headlong pace. (One passage, when Vago comes out of the newspaper office and rips off his \u201cdisguise,\u201d could have employed a buzzsaw.) The music would be good in any case; considering that the composer was unable to see any footage, compliments to musical arranger Bernard G\u00e9rard are in order.<\/p>\n

\"Yves<\/p>\n

At the center of the swirling action, calm as the eye of a hurricane, is the Investigator. The dedication to justice in the face of bribes and threats of all kinds does not become a self-righteous crusade, as it does in a Hollywood film; rather, it is lonely, frustrating and demanding. Jean-Louis Trintignant\u2019s crisp, exacting vocal delivery captures the man\u2019s love of precision. Pr\u00e9ciser<\/em><\/strong> (to clarify) is a French verb, after all. He cuts off a flimsy, meandering explanation with an impatient \u201cJe connais, je connais<\/em><\/strong>\u201d (I know, I know) and greets an uneasy admission with an \u201cAh!<\/em><\/strong>\u201d of mock surprise. A witness begins, \u201cThe day of the assassination \u2014\u201d \u201cThe incidents,\u201d the Investigator interrupts her. \u201cSay \u2018the incidents.\u2019\u201d Later he corrects another witness, adding, \u201cAssassination has not been proved.\u201d When he finally uses the word assassinat<\/em><\/strong> himself, it has the force of a fist.<\/p>\n

\"Yves<\/p>\n

The cracking gait Z<\/i><\/b> sets has its drawbacks: When an intricate plot is related with speed and efficiency, characterization is the first casualty. The sole complex character is a callous, mercenary journalist played by a superb Jacques Perrin. He is capable of astonishing charm, courage, determination, invention; capable of everything short of caring. A bleeding peace demonstrator is carried past him; he nods to his associate, \u201cSell to the Daily Worker<\/i><\/b>\u201d \u2014 supplying the headline \u2014 \u201cVictims of Fascism.\u201d He locates the assailant of another EDA deputy. \u201cYou must publish it in our paper,\u201d the deputy tells him; but the journalist is going to put it \u201cin a big-circulation daily. It\u2019ll be read, and they pay.\u201d \u201cIn an opposition paper,\u201d he continues, \u201cit\u2019s nothing. It\u2019s just \u2018politics.\u2019 But in mine, it\u2019s news \u2014 sensational news!\u201d He has equal disregard for both sides: His rapid-fire questions literally back Z\u2019s confused, exhausted widow against the wall \u2014 all she can do is plead weakly, \u201cLaissez-moi \u2026 laissez-moi<\/i><\/b>\u201d (Leave me!); similarly, the tearful confession of a thug is punctuated by a clicking camera shutter. Even Perrin\u2019s face seems to change. Here it is all sharp planes; as the love-struck blond sailor in The Young Girls<\/i><\/b> of Rochefort<\/i><\/b> his features looked soft and adolescent. But this part, wonderfully realized though it is, falls outside the film\u2019s main concern; as the Investigator says, \u201cHis motives are anything but political.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JeanI think Costa-Gavras realized how flat most of the characters remain. He has tried to give Montand’s Z\u00a0a little depth by cutting in very brief flashbacks. Mostly they are on the Hiroshima, mon amour<\/em><\/strong> pattern (Manuel, a lawyer and friend of Z,\u00a0attempts to console the widow by stroking her cheek \u2014 cut to Z making the same gesture), and Costa-Gavras will not make us forget Resnais; their A Man and a Woman<\/em><\/strong> tone (Z\u2019s wife snuggling up to him as they drive through a rainstorm, Z playing with his children) does not help matters much \u2014 an effort to lend Z some dimension without cluttering it with psychology or deflecting its single-minded drive.<\/p>\n

The dialogue by novelist (Le grand voyage<\/em><\/strong>) and screenwriter (Resnais\u2019 La guerre<\/em><\/strong> est finie<\/em><\/strong>) Jorge Sempr\u00fan <\/span>is fine, but the actors do more for the lines than the lines do for them. Fran\u00e7ois P\u00e9rier\u2019s oily, vacillating public prosecutor is so convincing one expects him to leave a trail as he glides across the floor. Renato Salvatori creates a chilling, funny brute out of the mere fact that Yago likes to hit people over the head with a club. Marcel Bozzufi (Vago), his homosexual partner in crime, is even better; his theatrical performance is a useful counterpoint to the film\u2019s quasi-documentary approach. In much the same way, Charles Denner\u2019s Manuel contrasts with the stoical EDA officials. This intense actor\u2019s voice is the razor\u2019s edge in operation. Costa-Gavras felt he needed Irene Papas\u2019 presence in the cast; alas, that presence is all he asked of her. Few grasp more subtleties in bombast than Pierre Dux; his General is an assured, carefully judged turn. The ensemble is so overqualified that Magali No\u00ebl can bring her usual fire to the right-wing sister of a witness who simply wants to tell the truth (he\u2019s Georges G\u00e9ret, the pimp friend in Visconti\u2019s film of The Stranger<\/em><\/strong>). And Clotilde Joano\u2019s long, pale face and beseeching eyes fit the concerned wife of an EDA man. The English subtitles are never more than adequate, but the film couldn\u2019t exist without the voices<\/em><\/strong> of these actors.<\/p>\n

\"Irene<\/p>\n

As the old Scot says, I hae me doots. One way to examine Z<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s shortcomings is through Fran\u00e7oise Bonnot\u2019s editing. It is brilliant in every sense: Action scenes that are staples of the secret-agent movie \u2014 the struggle in the back of a careening vehicle, the man on foot desperate to avoid being run over \u2014 are so joltingly cut it seems tiresome to complain. While Z is doing his speech, shots match his points expertly: Over dry statistics (\u201cA strategic bomber costs as much as seven schools\u201d) his fellow deputy is savagely beaten; \u201cWhy is peace so intolerable to them?\u201d \u2014 the General\u2019s jeep drives up to the crowd. But \u201cbrilliant\u201d also means dazzling, narrowly applied, superficial. Z<\/em><\/strong> is a political thriller that lacks \u201cthe thrill of comprehension\u201d (Brecht). If you know anything about recent events in Greece, your understanding will not be enlarged. Vassilikos attempts (not entirely successfully) an analysis, but not Costa-Gavras \u2014 he is unwilling to take the risk of boring us.<\/p>\n

The potent acting and technical authority give Z<\/em><\/strong> the illusion of substance. It is hard to reproach any film which opposes the military rulers of present-day Greece, but one wishes Z<\/em><\/strong> were better. It tells us less than we want to know; despite many strong virtues, it is finally not quite enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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