Frantic (1988)

	Directed by: Roman Polanski	COUNTRY France GENRE Drama/Mystery NORWEGIAN TITLE Desperat RUNNING TIME 120 minutes
	Produced by: Tim Hampton Thom Mount
	Written by: Roman Polanski Gérard Brach

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Dr. Richard Walker	Harrison Ford
Sondra Walker	Betty Buckley	½
Michelle	Emmanuelle Seigner

Review

Harrison Ford is all alone in Paris after his wife disappears from their hotel room, and not surprisingly, bureaucracy cannot help him. Roman Polanski uses Cold War-style scares such as nuclear devices, inhuman agents, and drug mobsters in order to spin a claustrophobic web around the ever-enterprising Ford. The film retains a weirdly numb nerve throughout, but we're never sucked into the human side of things, and Frantic remains a detached collection of rather repetitive crime elements. Future Polanski wife Emmanuelle Seigner is added to give the film some sorely needed zest, but even her youthful energy seems too controlled and apportioned. The score by Ennio Morricone is among his least noticeable.