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Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point

Richard C. Sarafian

  • 1971
  • USA
  • Road movie
  • 1h39mn
  • Original version with French subtitles
  • Color
Behind the wheel of a white Dodge Challenger, Kowalski makes the bet he can go from Denver to San Francisco in less than 15 hours, through America’s isolated desert roads. Hot on his track, a pack of policemen aim to stop him.
The California desert, a car, a man with a shady past are the elements of this long headlong flight from point A to point B, the improbable meeting of upbeat action movies and intimist author films in a radical and hybrid style, evoking both Antonioni and Sam Peckinpah. Emblematic of post 1968 disabused cinema, Vanishing Point, with its streamlined storytelling laced with constant irony and its flamboyant directing, stands as a great savage film about the end of illusions, directed by one of American cinema’s shooting stars, the precious Richard C. Sarafian.

Coralie Fargeat

I discovered this film just five years ago and I was totally pulled into this straight line. A pure car movie (as one might not say), a free and alternative spirit... It races. It swerves. It intoxicates. To the finish! Speed and freedom, I put the hammer down! VROOOM !

Screenings

03/09 • 19h45 • Screen 300
Screening presented by Coralie Fargeat

Credits

  • With : Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin...
  • Screenplay : Guillermo Cain, Barry Hall
  • Photography : John A. Alonzo
  • Editing : Stefan Arsten
  • Music by : Jimmy Bowen
  • Production : Norman Spencer