Blind Spot
Synopsis
As he nears forty, Arnold is renowned for his talent and integrity as a reporter. His new assignment is an in-depth article on the civil war in Sri Lanka. He already knows the subject and the country very well. But he is prevented from leaving by a dizzy spell just as he is boarding the plane. His ophthalmologist discovers disturbing eye problems and refuses to let him leave the country. He can't accept the idea that a colleague whom he suspects of "hoaxing" is going to take his place. He decides to give the impression that he has left anyway and writes his report locked in his apartment. This causes him serious ethical problems, especially as the "hoax" wins him a major prize for reporting...
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Director (1)
Actors (16)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Société Française de Production (SFP)
- Co-production : Canal Plus Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : MKL Distribution
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Boudjemaa Dahmane
- Screenwriters : Maurice Dugowson, Odile Barski, Jacques Dugowson
- Director of Photography : Jacques Guérin
- Music Composer : Jean-Claude Vannier
- Editor : Marie-France Ghilbert
- Sound Recordist : Norbert Garcia
- Costume designer : Pascaline Suty
- Author of original work : Maurice Achard
- Line Producers : Cléo Daran, Jean-Pierre Fayer
- Camera Operator : Georges Orset
- Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet
- Assistant editor : Margot Meynier
- Production Designer : Valérie Grall
- Still Photographer : Monika Jeziorowska
- Location Manager : Gérard Monier
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French
- Production year : 1994
- French release : 18/01/1995
- Runtime : 1 h 35 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 82.016
- Visa issue date : 23/01/1995
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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"This movie deals with a moral problem. Everyone knows that a report is subject to a journalist's views and sympathies. There's no such thing as an "objective" report since everything depends on the reporter's honesty in respecting the rules. Sometimes, a little tinkering with reality can give people a better understanding of a situation. But too much tinkering can lead to a red line that musn't be crossed, beyond which the reporter no longer relates a realistic situation but twists and disguises the truth. The whole problem is knowing just where this red line lies."
(Maurice Dugowson)
