Mireille Bertillet, a provincial judge, is transferred to Paris. She inherits a heavy file compromising high personalities.
Acting
Marianne Basler's quietly furious stillness against the chaos.
Direction
Mocky's cheap, urgent handheld energy — guerrilla filmmaking in suits.
Director
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mocky shot this in 26 days for roughly €600,000, financing it himself after studios passed.
Released during the Elf Aquitaine scandal, when French political corruption dominated headlines — audiences read it as barely fictional.
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