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(France) Directed by Maurice Pialat (Under the Sun of Satan, Loulou, Le Chevre)
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina, Sandrine Bonnaire
Plot: (From the jacket) Gérard Depardieu stars as a tough romantic cop living on the edge in Maurice Pialat's exciting crime drama POLICE. While investigating a North African drug ring, he falls in love with a sullen, voluptuous suspect and struggles to reconcile his personal ethics with his growing passion for her. As this dark love story unwinds, it becomes clear that good and evil, cops and crooks not only coexist but are intimately engaged in a deadly embrace.
(from imdb) Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
Awards: Venice Film Festival '85 -- Best Actor (Depardieu)
US/UK Status: Available on VHS in the US -- French with English subtitles. Not available in the UK.
Links:
Imdb.com listing
Rotten Tomatoes Site (has several reviews)
Onflim.com review
1Worldfilms.com page
Marceau fan site with pictures from Police
Foreignfilms.com page with some quotes
Cinedestin page (in French with pictures)
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