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Death Watch

Death Watch

1980, Movie, 2h 11min

Part human drama, part sci-fi cautionary tale, Bertrand Tavernier’s DEATH WATCH unfolds in a future where death by disease has become extremely rare. When it is discovered that Katherine (Romy Schneider, in one of her final roles) has an incurable illness, she becomes an object of intense media fascination—so much so that Roddy (Harvey Keitel) has a camera implanted into his brain so that he can record, unbeknownst to Katherine, her final days for the reality television series “Death Watch.” By turns moving and unsettling, this cult classic is a chillingly prescient vision of a voyeuristic society in decay.

Country: France,Germany

Director:

Bertrand Tavernier

Cast:

Harry Dean Stanton,

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6.0

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Critic David Parkinson

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6

Romy Schneider and Harvey Keitel excel...

Read full review at Empire

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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6

...a prescient but lugubrious sci-fi satire about reality television, though a more low-key satire can hardly be imagined.

Read full review at The Guardian

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Death Watch include Blade Runner, Runaway, WarGames, Threads, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Element of Crime.

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Death Watch was released in theaters on April 1, 1982.