A taxi driving, strip club managing conman chooses a salesman as a mark. The latter falls for his hospitality, but soon appears to be already in trouble.
Acting
Carmet and Marielle's oily, pathetic chemistry.
Direction
Séria's unglamorous dive into working-class desperation.
Director
Joël Séria
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This flopped hard in 1987, part of France's brief fascination with grimy working-class anti-heroes that died with the Mitterrand era.
Marielle and Carmet were real-life friends for 20 years; their uncomfortable on-screen familiarity was genuine.
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