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Serie Noire

Original title: Série noire
  • 1979
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 56m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
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Serie Noire (1979)
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Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like t... Read allFranck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds t... Read allFranck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds to achieve his goal... A very gloomy movie, exuding dispair and uneasiness, with pathetic c... Read all

  • Director
    • Alain Corneau
  • Writers
    • Jim Thompson
    • Georges Perec
    • Alain Corneau
  • Stars
    • Patrick Dewaere
    • Myriam Boyer
    • Marie Trintignant
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    3.3K
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    • Director
      • Alain Corneau
    • Writers
      • Jim Thompson
      • Georges Perec
      • Alain Corneau
    • Stars
      • Patrick Dewaere
      • Myriam Boyer
      • Marie Trintignant
    • 18User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 6 nominations

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    Patrick Dewaere
    Patrick Dewaere
    • Franck Poupart
    Myriam Boyer
    • Jeanne
    Marie Trintignant
    Marie Trintignant
    • Mona
    Bernard Blier
    Bernard Blier
    • Staplin
    Jeanne Herviale
    • La tante
    Andreas Katsulas
    Andreas Katsulas
    • Andreas Tikides
    Charlie Farnel
    • Marcel l'inspecteur
    Samuel Mek
    • Le boxeur
    Jack Jourdain
    • L'entraineur
    • (as Jack Jourdan)
    Fernand Coquet
    • Le Hell's Angel
    • Director
      • Alain Corneau
    • Writers
      • Jim Thompson
      • Georges Perec
      • Alain Corneau
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    • Trivia
      The house where he rescues the girl evokes Psycho' s charismatic house.
    • Connections
      Featured in Un jour, un destin: Patrick Dewaere: Le dernier jour (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Moonlight fiesta
      Written by Juan Tizol and Irving Mills

      Performed by Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol

    User reviews18

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    10/10
    Amazing french Film Noir
    This is the second Jim Thompson adaptation I review here and it's purely coincidental. I really must love Thompson's style. I wasn't expected a masterpiece when I bought Série Noire in DVD, tho. I've always been fond of the late Patrick Dewaere, I think he is one of the best French actors ever, and I like Corneau's cinema, but Série Noire was unexpected and it is indeed extraordinary. It's daring, tense and plunged into harsh realism. It's the kind of film that stays with you once you've finished watching it. It shows how easy it is to lose control when society becomes a weight on personal identity. Série Noire is a different kind of Film Noir and probably the best French crime film among Le cercle rouge and Du Rififi chez les hommes. It has a ton of black humor and a bleak atmosphere. Corneau shoots Paris as if it was itself a character, a gloomy, grey and ruthless antagonist. The sordid locations and the moisty dirty apartments where the action takes place give a really weird and nightmarish mood to the film. The social pressure which the character is subject is huge and unbearable; it literally toys with him until he breaks. Patrick Dewaere shines like in no other films, he's brilliant as the neurotic looser who gets wrapped into this tragic vortex after the killing of an old woman. His downfall somehow reminded me of the dizzying Richard Widmark's runaway in Night and the city. Georges Perec's dialogues are just great, very similar to Michel Audiard or Bertrand Blier's style. The cast is perfect. Bernard Blier is excellent as usual and Marie Trintignant is mysterious and sensual. If you like 70's French crime films, you have to watch it, this is one of the best.
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    • Release date
      • April 25, 1979 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Serie negra
    • Filming locations
      • Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France
    • Production companies
      • Prospectacle
      • Gaumont
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $5,633
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,088
      • Sep 29, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $5,633
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 56 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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