Fresh
It is a great film for many reasons, not the least of which is that it can be enjoyed as a political thriller as well as a political statement.
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
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Z
Overview
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Director and cast
- Costa-Gavras Director
- Yves Montand as Z
- Irene Papas as Hélène
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Examining Magistrate
- Jacques Perrin as Photojournalist
- Charles Denner as Manuel
- François Périer as Public Prosecutor
- Bernard Fresson as Matt
- Pierre Dux as Gendarmerie General Missou
- Georges Géret as Nick
- Magali Noël as Nick's Sister
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's hard to overstate the impact that this Oscar-winning procedural thriller had in 1969, on a world roiling in political activism, repression, and discord.
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
Fresh
Z, whose title is a stand-in for the Greek word zei ('he lives'), takes us back to where that fascination all began for Costa-Gavras and shows us that, for the rest of us, it hasn't ever really ended.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh
In its slick cinematic urgency and its outrage, Z still has the power to shake you up.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
Z combines the intellectual heft of revolution-themed films like The Battle of Algiers with the drop-dead cool of mod touchstones like Blow Out or Le Samourai.
Dana Stevens, Slate
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