Le moustachu (1987)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Dominique Chaussois

Writer:

Dominique Chaussois (writer)

Release Date:

8 April 1987 (France)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

The French intelligence service want to use a double agent to eliminate a terrorist groupe. To do this...

Plot Keywords:

Spy

Cast

Jean Rochefort	...	Le capitaine Duroc
Grace De Capitani	...	La peste
Jean-Claude Brialy	...	Leroy
Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	Le général Gougeard
Jean-Claude Leguay	...	le jeune homme à la 2 CV
Maxime Leroux	...	Richard Staub - le chef des terroristes
Jacques Mathou	...	Sully - l'adjoint de Leroy
Marie Mergey	...	La vieille dame dans l'auto
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pierre Belot	...	Tirot
Michel Bompon	...	Le deuxième voyou
Marc Brunet	...	Le faux routier
Antonio Cauchois	...	Plancard
Monique Couturier	...	La patronne du restaurant
Albert Delpy	...	Le patron du restaurant
Marc Desrau	...	Le mari qui a un malaise dans son auto
Jean-Charles Dumay	...	Stéphane Dax
Eric Franklin	...	L'aide de camp
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus	...	Le technicien Volvo
Thierry Langerak	...	Morton
Franca Mai	...	Catherine Fruck - la terroriste
Régis Musset	...	Le premier voyou
Olivier Pajot	...	Le projectionniste
Jacky Pratoussy	...	Mercier (as Jacques Pratoussi)
Rémy Roubakha	...	L'employé du péage
Marc Spilmann	...	Le garçon du restaurant

Also Known As:

The Field Agent

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Fujicolor)

Filming Locations:

Olivet, Loiret, France

Company:

C.A.P.A.C.

Clouseau versus Duroc: you bet

At least as imposing as most Pink Panthers. I gave a ten in order to increase the global note; feel free to give tens until it reaches nearly eight.

A comedy with uncommon features:

— No special lens effect to give depth to the picture. It's particularly static and cold over there. Well... It looks like it was made for television. This pretentious team thinks I'm going to watch TV comedies on a giant screen?

— You're mostly being taken to a (french) highway lunch stop area, where dramatic events keep a kind of tension going. Not far from those, a nice guy who loves unknown hitch-hikers will need around two minutes to bring a normal conversation into a dialog on religion, so as... Let's put it in cryptic words... so as gas stations and Heaven are different places.

There's a truth drug scene, it reminds me of the one in Tintin's Flight 714.

Obviously they didn't spend as much money as in James Bond, yet spy-film gear abounds in "Le Moustachu". Especially we can give applause to this crew for the hire of brand new fluorescent orange safety uniforms, charismatically worn by the actors; a melodic car horn, and a huge Domeco's truck with a rotating cabin. Also genuine stunts are on show, though there's no nervous editing to enhance them.