Meld je aan voor onze nieuwsbrief beoordeling door klanten. A sort of film noir with a tad of comical and grotesque elements in it. When he finally gets a grip on himself it all ends in murder. The local criminals openly mock luciens inability to put a stop to their. Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine. Sommaire 1 synopsis 2 fiche technique 3 distribution 4 autour du film 5 distinctions 6 notes et references 7 voir aussi 7. Volg ons op facebook volg ons op twitter volg ons op pintrest volg ons op instagram volg ons op youtube volg ons op linkedin. A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life and resorts to drastic means to do so. Its the physical equivalent of earth that isnt solid. The allstar french cast includes the elegant stephane audran. In the opening credits, we are correctly informed that the film is based on the novel pop. Its an adaptation of an american novel by jim thompson.
Everyone regards him as a harmless buffoon, but he seems not to care. Ironically, having the dvd is better than going to the theater in 1981 when the film was released because the dvd includes an interview with the film s director, bertrand tavernier. In a french colonial town in west africa of 1938, lucien cordier is the police chief, a likeable slob who turns a blind eye to all the corruption that surrounds him. The film changes the novels setting from a west texas oil boom town to a small town in french west africa. Facebook twitter youtube instagram jobs join unifrance. Hapless lucien cordier philippe noiret is the beleaguered police chief of a small town in french colonial senegal. Featuring pitchperfect performances by philippe noiret and isabelle huppert, this striking neonoir straddles the line between. Lucien cordier, unique policier dune petite bourgade.
Taverniers strengths are usually character and atmosphere, and, working with his regular leading man noiret, the film s at its best when giving us a sense of a man exhausted physically and morally by the corruption and heat of a colonial town. The bravados classic western, full movie, gregory peck, english free full western films duration. Even though the film was in french with english subtitles, it was on for 2 full years. Huppert stars as the brazen mistress of an ineffectual french policeman philippe noiret in former french west africa. An inspired rendering of jim thompsons pulp novel pop. I watched this film in new york when it first came out. May 12, 2001 thompson novels are all harrowing studies in amorality, tales in which we are forced to identify with someone whom circumstances force to do terrible thingsa point of view that found perfect fruition in the darkness of american film noir. Its a mordantly funny script, full of odd touches like a blind white man who says out of my sight to a bunch of black kids, but eventually.
Taverniers film is about poor white trash in africa in 1938, and there are times when they seem almost real but theyre never allowed the pulse. Vanwege zijn gebrek aan assertiviteit, begint hij mensen maar uit te schakelen, zodat het gevaar meteen geweken is. Le bal des cassepieds 1992 jean rochefort, jacques villeret, victor lanoux, sandrine caron duration. I went back to watch it again and again and every time i saw another meaning for the various situations. Lucien cordier est lunique policier dune petite ville coloniale.
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