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Les spécialistes (1985)
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13 March 1985 (France) moreTagline:
C'était impossible, ils l'ont fait !Plot:
During a routine transfer of prisoners from one jail to another, an accused cop killer, Paul Brandon... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Popular subversion of a macho genre. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bernard Giraudeau | ... | Paul Brandon |
| Gérard Lanvin | ... | Stéphane Carella |
| Christiane Jean | ... | Laura |
| Maurice Barrier | ... | Kovacs |
| Daniel Jégou | ... | Casino director |
| Bertie Cortez | ... | Mazetti |
| Christian Bianchi | ||
| Jean-Luc Debrie | ||
| William Doherty | ||
| Bernard Hervé | ||
| Salvatore Ingoglia | ||
| Philippe Lehembre | ||
| Patrick Massieu | ||
| Jacques Nolot | ... | Le gendarme chez Laura |
| Gerard Parachou |
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This is a very subversive buddy-buddy movie which foregrounds the homoeroticism latent in its structural model, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID. As much a French Western (thematically and visually) as a gangster movie, it uses predictable absolutes - wide open spaces/cramped interiors; law/criminal; legally 'straight'/sexually 'straight' etc. - to make them (and the genre that feeds on them) ambiguous and critical. Melville is invoked too - in the focus on elaborate heist - and subverted: life, not death, is celebrated. Sadly, if I may say so under IMDb guidelines, the dialogue (in translation anyway) is uninspired, the plot underdeveloped and the action mechanics barely routine.