Not quite a noir, this film is a hybrid of several genres, and its. Paronnaud’s comics background serves him well from a visual standpoint, but his narrative and character development fall short, leaving Hunted a mostly empty, unfulfilling experience. Lewis, most famous for such tough and vigorous noirs as Gun Crazy and The Big Combo. There have been quite a few stylized takes on the rape-revenge story in recent years, from Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge to Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, and those movies have a stronger handle on their perspectives than Paronnaud does with Hunted. The lack of character detail distances the audience from the action, and it’s tough to invest in Eve’s eventual revenge. If Paronnaud had presented an entirely surreal, fantastical film from the beginning, it would be easier to handle that shift, but most of Eve’s story is depicted as realistic, if heightened.
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The opening suggests a story about the timeless pull of the forest, but as the characters keep running, they somehow end up in a corn field, and then at a construction site, although by that point it’s tough to tell what’s meant to be real and what’s merely symbolic. The Hunted (2003) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by William Friedkin Writing Credits ( WGA) Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification Produced by Music by Brian Tyler Cinematography by Caleb Deschanel.
As Eve and the guy continue to evade and confront each other, Hunted’s final act devolves into near-total abstraction, losing any sense of character or purpose or geography. Eventually, the mother and son from the prologue return, although they make less of an impact on the story than their initial introduction would indicate.
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