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Director:
Maurice Pialat
Writers:
Catherine Breillat (original idea)
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Release Date:
4 September 1985 (France) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Romance more
Plot:
A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
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(4 articles)
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Cast

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Gérard Depardieu ... Louis Vincent Mangin

Sophie Marceau ... Noria
Richard Anconina ... Lambert
Pascale Rocard ... Marie Vedret
Sandrine Bonnaire ... Lydie
Frank Karaoui ... René
Jonathan Leïna ... Simon
Jacques Mathou ... Gauthier
Bernard Fuzellier ... Nez Cassé
Bentahar Meaachou ... Claude Laouki (as Bentahar Meaachou)
Yann Dedet ... Dédé
Mohamed Ayari ... Momo
Abdel Kader Touati ... Maxime
Jamil Bouarada ... Jean
Bechir Idani ... Barman René
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Runtime:
113 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Iceland:12 | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15
Company:
Gaumont International more

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Pialat's only polar, 31 March 2006
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Author: Bob Taylor (bob998@sympatico.ca) from Canada

This is the one attempt that Pialat made to do a police procedural film. The story is told of how he got Depardieu and Marceau, the two biggest stars at the time, to commit to the project, then realized he had no script. He dispatched Catherine Breillat, she of the steamy soft-core classics, to spend her nights in Belleville soaking up the atmosphere of Arab drug gangs and write a script. Of course, he hated it... But why go on. Pialat's films are such a triumph of will over circumstances (his own failings) that it is useless to analyze the making of them.

He has got Depardieu to play a detective, but somehow the character flows naturally out of Loulou, made five years previously. There is the same wildness, the same physicality, the same need to take risks. When the detectives, the hooker, the lawyer and Noria are all in the nightclub together, they are all risking something but they don't care much. The plot turns on a cache of drug money found in Noria's apartment, but that is just a convenience for the viewer; Pialat has a need to show us people under pressure, getting beaten, getting shot, spending time in prison and so forth.

Reality intrudes on fiction: Frank Karaoui--who has several scenes as a restaurant owner and drug dealer--was convicted of dealing in real life.

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