State of Siege
The last of three political thrillers made by Costa-Gavras, State of Siege, along with Z and The Confession, are the linkers between political thrillers of the early 1960s and the more celebrated clutch of the 1970s. Mixing the geopolitics of the likes of 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate with the paranoia of 1974’s The Parallax View and its ilk, his 1972 thriller manages to be both paranoid and geopolitical, but most of all it’s procedural – Costa-Gavras wants to know the who and the what but also the how of moments of great political flux. He starts off with the discovery of the body of a dead American diplomat in a car, widens his … Read more
