The police film in the Maurice Pialat style? The film contains a lot of scenes in police stations. And a lot of interrogations. The film revolves around Gérard Depardieu, his work as a cop, his special relationship with the milieu, his personal life, deserted on the sentimental level, which necessarily revolves around his life as a cop. With Sophie Marceau (awful hairstyle) whom he falls in love with, who is a manipulator in a world of drug dealers. There is no empathy for his character. It is more the character of Gérard Depardieu who is the center of the film; that the spectator has difficulty to identify, who finally looks lost, which makes him interesting. And as such, the film can also be seen as a sentimental story.
The film manages by its original tone, which can make think of documentary, but which is not, while giving the impression that it is. The different interrogations are exciting to follow.
The film has no music, which gives weight and density to the images. The direction plays a lot with the depth of field and therefore everything that happens, to see or understand, is not necessarily in the foreground.
The film manages by its original tone, which can make think of documentary, but which is not, while giving the impression that it is. The different interrogations are exciting to follow.
The film has no music, which gives weight and density to the images. The direction plays a lot with the depth of field and therefore everything that happens, to see or understand, is not necessarily in the foreground.