Les ripoux (1984)
(Le Cop)
Country: FR
Technical: col 107m
Director: Claude Zidi
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte
Synopsis:
A detective given his first post with a north metropolitan commissariat is scandalized to find that his superior is on the take, but is soon won over to the old ways.
Review:
Fashionably cynical comedy showcasing a typically French disregard for and abuse of their own complex laws and regulations. It did well internationally, possibly as a consequence, but owes much also to its pace, the effective deployment of a number of comic archetypes, and Noiret's practised central performance. The twist is that rather than the crooks making off with the loot, the cops do, 'les pourris' of the title (French backwards slang); it remains for the viewer to decide who is worse, but there's little doubt who we are supposed to be rooting for!
(Le Cop)
Country: FR
Technical: col 107m
Director: Claude Zidi
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte
Synopsis:
A detective given his first post with a north metropolitan commissariat is scandalized to find that his superior is on the take, but is soon won over to the old ways.
Review:
Fashionably cynical comedy showcasing a typically French disregard for and abuse of their own complex laws and regulations. It did well internationally, possibly as a consequence, but owes much also to its pace, the effective deployment of a number of comic archetypes, and Noiret's practised central performance. The twist is that rather than the crooks making off with the loot, the cops do, 'les pourris' of the title (French backwards slang); it remains for the viewer to decide who is worse, but there's little doubt who we are supposed to be rooting for!
(Le Cop)
Country: FR
Technical: col 107m
Director: Claude Zidi
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte
Synopsis:
A detective given his first post with a north metropolitan commissariat is scandalized to find that his superior is on the take, but is soon won over to the old ways.
Review:
Fashionably cynical comedy showcasing a typically French disregard for and abuse of their own complex laws and regulations. It did well internationally, possibly as a consequence, but owes much also to its pace, the effective deployment of a number of comic archetypes, and Noiret's practised central performance. The twist is that rather than the crooks making off with the loot, the cops do, 'les pourris' of the title (French backwards slang); it remains for the viewer to decide who is worse, but there's little doubt who we are supposed to be rooting for!