Police (1985 film)

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Police
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Directed by	Maurice Pialat
Screenplay by	Catherine Breillat Sylvie Danton [de; fr] Jacques Fieschi Maurice Pialat
Story by	Catherine Breillat
Produced by	Emmanuel Schlumberger
Starring	Gérard Depardieu Sophie Marceau Richard Anconina
Cinematography	Luciano Tovoli
Edited by	Yann Dedet
Music by	Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (Symphonie N° 3) sung by Stefania Woytowicz Symphonie Orchester der Südwestfunk conducted by Ernest Bour
Production companies	Gaumont TF1 Films Productions
Distributed by	Gaumont
Release date	4 September 1985 (1985-09-04) (France)
Running time	114 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Police is a 1985 French neo noir crime drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, and Sandrine Bonnaire. Written by Catherine Breillat, the film is about a moody, jaded police detective investigating a drug ring who falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme.^[1] The film had 1,830,970 admissions in France.^[2]

Plot

In the Belleville district of Paris, the widowed Mangin is a cynical and tough police detective working to smash a drug ring of Tunisian brothers. He arrests and brutally interrogates Noria, the girlfriend of one of the gang who is in jail. Though she gives him no useful information, her beauty and her tears touch his heart. She agrees to go with him in a foursome to a disco.

When another gang member is in hospital with knife wounds, he gives Noria the key to his hideout. There she finds a bag of money and heroin, which she removes. When the remaining gang members put heavy pressure on Noria, who denies all knowledge of the theft, she offers herself to Mangin. He is happy to accept her as a lover, even a partner, but says she will not live long if she does not give back the cash and the drugs.

She fetches the bag for Mangin, who takes it to the bar where the Tunisians hang out. They are delighted, promising to help him in return. Though he has done this to save Noria's life, and has declared his love for her, she leaves him.

Cast

Gérard Depardieu as Louis Vincent Mangin
Sophie Marceau as Noria
Richard Anconina as Lambert
Pascale Rocard [fr] as Marie Vedret
Sandrine Bonnaire as Lydie
Frank Karoui as René
Jonathan Leïna as Simon
Jacques Mathou as Gauthier
Bernard Fuzellier as Nez cassé
Bentahar Meaachou as Claude
Yann Dedet as Dédé
Artus de Penguern as Inspector

Reception

Richard Brody of The New Yorker magazine called the re-release of the film as "Astringently naturalistic drama."^[3]

Accolades

The film was nominated for a César for Best Editing in 1986, as well as a Best Actor nomination for Depardieu. Depardieu also won the Award for Best Actor from the Venice Film Festival in 1985 for his performance of the conflicted Mangin.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Mannikka, Eleanor (2007). "Police (1985)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
^ "Police". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
^ Brody, Richard (19 October 2015). "Police". The New Yorker.

External links

Police at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Maurice Pialat
L'amour existe (1960) Naked Childhood (1968) We Won't Grow Old Together (1972) The Mouth Agape (1974) Graduate First (1978) Loulou (1980) À Nos Amours (1983) Police (1985) Under the Sun of Satan (1987) Van Gogh (1991) Le Garçu (1995)

v t e Catherine Breillat
Films written and directed	A Real Young Girl (1976) 36 Fillette (1988) Romance (1999) Fat Girl (2001) Brief Crossing (2001) Sex Is Comedy (2002) Anatomy of Hell (2004) The Last Mistress (2007) Bluebeard (2009) La belle endormie (2010) Abuse of Weakness (2013) Last Summer (2023)
Films written	Catherine & Co. (1975) Bilitis (1977) The Skin (1981) The Eyes, the Mouth (1982) Police (1985) Milan noir (1987) To Matthieu (2000)

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