![]() In the end, Descombes has to be satisfied with the experience actually bringing him and his son closer together. In a reversal of roles, the police official in charge of the case ( Jean Rochefort) tries his best to offer a scenario that will at least shave some time off Bernard's sentence he comes off like the father who can't stand to see his son spend any more time in prison than necessary. It's clear that Bernard is holding off his father because he can only justify his crime on moral grounds, and Descombes is forced to accept that decision. In conversation with Madeleine ( Andree Tainsy) the woman who raised Bernard, Descombes answers her observation, "He said that everyone loved you" by noting ruefully, "Only everyone, not him." The story takes its time in reuniting father and son, and even their first meeting is marked by only a few words exchanged. Bernard has fled without trying to seek shelter with his father. Descombes' well-ordered life, in which he deals with the certainty of mechanical devices that mark time, is immeasurably complicated when he learns that Bernard has murdered a vicious boss who was harassing Bernard's pregnant girlfriend. ![]() Descombes ( Philippe Noiret) is a shopkeeper with a few friends but no visible family we soon learn that his wife deserted him years before and he is estranged from Bernard, his grown son. Director Bertrand Tavernier's debut is a deceptively modest story about the after-effects of a murder - a whydunit rather than a whodunit.
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