Le Septième juré manages to be both a masterpiece of the suspense
thriller genre and a cleverly written satire on the corrupt bourgeois elite in France... [More...]
What was originally envisaged as a serious gangster thriller ended up as a classy comedy
thriller, the first in what would become a popular sub-genre in French cinema in the late
1960s... [More...]
After the huge success of Les Tontons flingueurs, an outrageously funny parody
of the gangster film, the director-writer team Georges Lautner and Michel Audiard repeated
their winning formula with Les Barbouzes... [More...]
This exemplary hard-edged policier sees Jean Gabin in possibly and toughest – and most
controversial – film role, that of a police commissioner who is not afraid to step outside
the law to achieve his ends... [More...]
With its exceptional production values (not least of which is its high-calibre cast),
Mort d’un pourri is the definitive 1970s policier. Well-paced... [More...]
Flic ou voyou was inspired from a novel by Michel Grisolia, "L’Inspecteur de
la mer" and is widely regarded as one of Jean-Paul Belmondo’s best films... [More...]
After the commercial success of Flic
ou voyou (1978), director Georges Lautner and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo were reunited
in their next film, Le Guignolo (along with most of the cast and production team
of their previous... [More...]
Compared with some of Georges Lautner’s better known films, Est-ce
bien raisonnable? must rate as a pretty minor work, lacking the biting wit... [More...]
Le Professionnel is a good example of the hard-edged yet overly simplistic 1980s
French action thriller. With its beautiful, wistful photography and a haunting musical
score... [More...]
Clearly not a film for the culturally minded, Joyeuses
Pâques is little more than a vehicle to allow its star actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
to indulge his penchant for action stunts and theatrical over-the-top acting... [More...]
Georges Lautner was the third film director to adapt Georges Simenon’s novel Les
Inconnus dans la maison. After Henri Decoin’s masterful 1942
version (which starred the acting legend Raimu
) came Pierre Rouve’s... [More...]
