A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.
Acting
Giraudeau's hangdog charisma carries every frame.
Cinematography
Paris at blue hour, all neon and regret.
Score
Synth saxophone that demands a cigarette.
Director
Édouard Niermans
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Édouard Niermans made only three features; this was his second, sandwiched between music videos and commercials that defined 1980s French visual style.
Gérard Blain's Broz channels the real-life 'Monsieur Claude' prostitution scandal that rocked Paris elite just years prior—French cinema's obsession with respectable hypocrisy in full display.
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