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23 August 1985 (USA)
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In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-years-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner...
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Exploded View of a Crime Movie
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Laurent Terzieff | ... | William Prospero |
| Aurelle Doazan | ... | Arielle |
| Jean-Pierre Léaud | ... | Inspector Neveu |
| Nathalie Baye | ... | Françoise Chenal |
| Claude Brasseur | ... | Emile Chenal |
| Johnny Hallyday | ... | Jim Fox Warner |
| Alain Cuny | ... | Old Mafioso |
| Xavier Saint-Macary | ... | Accountant |
| Pierre Bertin | ... | Young Son |
| Alexandra Garijo | ... | Young Daughter |
| Stéphane Ferrara | ... | Tiger Jones |
 | Emmanuelle Seigner | ... | Princess of the Bahamas |
| Eugène Berthier | ... | Old manager |
 | Julie Delpy | ... | Wise young girl |
| Cyrille Dajinckourt | ... | La fille |
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95 min
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Jean-Luc Godard dedicated the film to John Cassavetes, Edgar G. Ulmer and Clint Eastwood.
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Features The Lost Squadron (1932)
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Rienzi
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This movie is said to have been filmed by Godard on commission from producer Alain Sarde, but it's by no means your ordinary "commissioned movie":it does boast a cast with well-known stars (at least in France) and it retains all the crime movie's stereotypes ( as gangsters, guns, boxers, girls, moneys changing hands...), but all of them are put together in a unique and mesmerizing way. Think of those exploded views you sometimes find in technical magazines: more often than not you can hardly tell what the represented object is supposed to be, nevertheless you always lose yourself gazing at those craftily drawn little pieces, until the object itself is deprived of any functional meaning and become only a sheer, pure sign. Though it's still possible to keep track of the plot and to draw something like a sequential chain going through the scenes, doing so is the best way to miss what this movie have really to offer: a collection of beautifully shot "vignettes", varying from amusing (Jean-Pierre Léaud freaking out in various disguises) to sublime (the "breast boxing" scene), each one to be tasted as a separate entity. There are plenty of quotes from books and other movies too, to the entertainment of the most encyclopedic among the audience (not that these quotes are introduced in the most subtle way: often the characters reads them from the actual books and you can easy spot the titles on screen! ) . Let's face it: it may be not a masterpiece, since sometimes the screenplay seems to have been conceived with the only aim of pushing you away from the screen, but the persevering viewer will be rewarded with some endearing little gems.