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Catherine Breillat (original idea)
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Release Date:
4 September 1985 (France) more
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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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1 win & 2 nominations more
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Pialat's only polar more (4 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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113 min
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Iceland:12 | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15
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Symphonie n°3 more
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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.