I... for Icarus

I... for Icarus (I… comme Icare, 1979) is Henri Verneuil's French political thriller, available to watch online on iFILM, with Yves Montand as the one prosecutor who won't let an assassination be buried.

President Marc Jarry is gunned down in front of a crowd. The official commission settles on a lone shooter and stands ready to sign its report. Prosecutor Henri Volney refuses, and the thread he pulls leads far above the man blamed for the killing. The parallels to the Kennedy case and the Warren Commission are deliberate — Verneuil lifts that American template onto an unnamed country and follows it all the way down.

The film's most famous sequence restages Stanley Milgram's obedience experiment, and that scene is exactly why people still talk about it decades on. A cold, methodical conspiracy thriller for anyone who loves the paranoid cinema of the seventies and Montand playing a lone man against the machine. Stream I... for Icarus (1979) online on iFILM.