Internal Affairs (1990)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.3/10   

Réalisateur:

Mike Figgis

Scénariste (WGA):

Henry Bean (written by)

Release Date:

12 janvier 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Thriller | Drame

Accroche:

Trust him... he's a cop.

Plot:

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Internal Affairs | Adultery | Music Score Composed By Director | Psychopath

Avis des utilisateurs:

Effectively skewed genre thriller

Ensemble

Richard Gere	...	Dennis Peck
Andy Garcia	...	Raymond Avilla
Laurie Metcalf	...	Amy Wallace
Nancy Travis	...	Kathleen Avilla
Richard Bradford	...	Grieb
William Baldwin	...	Van Stretch
Michael Beach	...	Dorian Fletcher
Katherine Borowitz	...	Tova Arrocas
Faye Grant	...	Penny Stretch
John Kapelos	...	Steven Arrocas
Xander Berkeley	...	Rudy Mohr
John Capodice	...	Chief Healy
Victoria Dillard	...	Kee
Pamella D'Pella	...	Cheryl
Susan Forristal	...	Lolly

Autre(s) titre(s):

Affaires privées (France) [fr]

Durée:

115 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais | Espagnol

Couleur:

Couleur (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

Dolby

Classification:

Singapore:M18 | Iceland:16 | Canada:A (Ontario) | USA:R (Certificate #29892) | Italy:VM14 | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | West Germany:18

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

City Hall - 200 N. Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Out of the Town Films

Goofs:

Continuity: About halfway through the movie, Dennis is waiting for Raymond outside his office. They have a conversation. Dennis crosses his arms, and keeps them crossed for the wide shot. When the camera cuts back to the two-shot, Dennis is now just holding his hands together.

Guillemet:

[conferring in private after Raymond offered immunity to Van Stretch]
Amy Wallace: You are not authorized to make this deal. It's a violation even to *offer* it!
Raymond Avila: Look at him. He wants to talk. If Peck were clean, there'd be nothing to talk about.
Amy Wallace: I am the senior partner. *Your* mistakes go on *my* file! Either you retract the offer to Van or *I will*!
[Raymond shakes his head]
Amy Wallace: All right. How about this then? Why don't you and Dennis Peck both *pull them out* and I'll decide which one's bigger!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Spin City: Internal Affairs (#3.16)" (1999)

Soundtrack:

AQUAMARINE

Effectively skewed genre thriller

A pretty good, early feature from Figgis. It's a thriller but with a unique strain already showing - it's more a war of character and attrition between Garcia and Gere than a straight chase number and broken up with a notable dream sequence (in fact, with this shot in a monochromatic blue and the nature of the film leaning towards existential examination of the leads I can't help but think of the Michael Mann of Manhunter and Heat respectively).

Garcia gives a good performance, if perhaps a touch excessively 'Latin' in its swinging between inscrutable and violent. He's well supported by Nancy Travis and particularly Lauire Metcalf - playing a unfussy, unostentatious but unequivocal lesbian. The treat of the show though is Gere. A true A-list performance here, powerfully masculine in its self-assurance, sexual charisma and violence in various states of disguise.

A stock film lifted by the agenda of a developing director and a matinée idol. Unsurprising, occasionally laboured but always watchable. 6/10