Police
Maurice Pialat
Mangin and his colleagues try to dismantle the Slimane brothers' drug network. They get a confession out of Claude Laouki, one of the brothers' henchmen, and bring in the younger Slimane brother Simon and his girlfriend Noria. Lambert, both the drug lords' lawyer and Mangin's friend, defends Simon and Noria's case. Noria is finally let go, and becomes Mangin's mistress.
With : Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina, Sandrine Bonnaire, Pascale Rocard, Frank Karoui, Jonathan Leina, Jacques Mathou, Bernard Fuzelier, Meaachou Bentahar, Mohamed Ayari
Screenplay : Catherine Breillat, Sylvie Danton, Jacques Fieschi, Maurice Pialat
Image : Luciano Tovoli
Sound : Bernard Aubouy, Laurent Poirier
Music : Henrik Mikolaj Gorecki, Tabou Combo, Jean-Michel Cabrimal, John Henry
Editing : Yann Dedet
Screenplay : Catherine Breillat, Sylvie Danton, Jacques Fieschi, Maurice Pialat
Image : Luciano Tovoli
Sound : Bernard Aubouy, Laurent Poirier
Music : Henrik Mikolaj Gorecki, Tabou Combo, Jean-Michel Cabrimal, John Henry
Editing : Yann Dedet
Production : Gaumont, TF1 Films Production
Distribution: Gaumont
Distribution: Gaumont
"Like many filmmakers, I have long wanted to make a detective film without really knowing how to go about doing so. (...) We finally chose a very simple story, half invented, half inspired by the daily news. (...) I wanted to tell this love story with the rather literary idea - amusing in the context of a detective film – of the coming together of rather disillusioned individuals for whom love appears only when they separate. It's almost a backwards love story. (...) The biggest success of Police is to have been written as we filmed, as much with the pages of scribbled dialogue as with the structure that satisfyingly introduced the secondary characters." (M. Pialat)