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| | Monsieur Hire |
 | | Monsieur Hire is a detective story that utterly transcends the genre. |
 | | The elements of the detective story are all there: a crime (the murder of a 22 year old girl), a cop (unlikable, meanly intrusive), a suspect (Monsieur Hire - a tailor, a loner disliked by his neighbors), a beautiful girl, evidence, clues, red herrings. |
 | | Monsieur Hire (Michel Blanc), we discover, is a voyeur, watching a neighbor, Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire), from his window, while he plays Brahms on his phonograph. |
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