Le cousin (1997)

Note Générale:

6,6/10   

Réalisateur:

Alain Corneau

Scénaristes:

Michel Alexandre (writer)
Alain Corneau (writer)

Date de sortie:

3 décembre 1997 (Belgium)

Genre:

Drame | Thriller

Accroche:

Pour les flics, il est de la famille

Intrigue:

Nounours is the nickname of a "cousin" an informer with a special arrangement with the police: he gets 10% of the drugs seized thanks to his help...

Plot Keywords:

Drugs | Police | Parisian Outskirts

Récompenses:

5 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

Relatively Speaking

Ensemble

Patrick Timsit	...	Nounours
Alain Chabat	...	Gérard Delvaux
Samuel Le Bihan	...	Francis
Caroline Proust	...	Fanny
Mehdi El Glaoui	...	Jeannot (as Mehdi)
Christophe Peyroux	...	Michel
Marie Trintignant	...	Juge Lambert
Agnès Jaoui	...	Claudine Delvaux
Fabienne Tricottet	...	Nathalie
Philippe Magnan	...	Donnadieu
Kevin Goffette	...	Stéphane
Audrey Alexandre	...	Soraya
Albane Alexandre	...	Emilie
Jean-Michel Noirey	...	Philippe
Pascale Vignal	...	Sylvie

Durée:

112 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

2,35 : 1

Son:

Dolby

Classification:

Finland:K-15 (new rating: 2001) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-14 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Hungary:14 | France:U

Lieux de tournage:

Boulevard du Lac, Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France

Société:

Canal+ Productions

Bande son:

Oui je l'adore

Relatively Speaking

There may be a term paper in just how many words exist in Parisian slang for 'informer', or, more pertinently, how many have been used as movie titles - offhand I recall 'La Balance' with the superb Nathalie Baye and here we have Alain Corneau returning to his old stamping ground, the 'polar'. Corneau has a long way to go to eclipse the three great 'polars' he made with Yves Montand - 'Police Python 357', 'Le Menace' and 'Le Choix des Armes', but he gives this entry the old college try, steps up to the plate and hits one out of the park. Buffs with 1)long memories or 2)a healthy video/DVD collection may be slightly bemused by the presence of Samuel Le Bihan as a good cop not least because of his exceptionally strong facial resemblance to Peter Graves, who played the heavy (nazi spy passing as American in the POW camp) in Billy Wilder's 1954 entry 'Stalag 17' and even a short memory will suffice to peg Timsit doing a Joe Pesci. These cavils to one side this is an excellent throwback (made in 1998) to an all-but-forgotten genre. Catch it if you can, you'll thank me, believe me.