As with all the director’s works, it believes in the connection and complicity between cops and criminals and introduces us to individuals with names such as Matthew the Suitcase, hard guys who haven’t smiled since Paris was liberated. Though not among Melville’s classics, “Un Flic” is a pleasure to experience. He plans another, even more complicated robbery, a 20-minute caper that is both a model of exposition (the whole thing takes place in real time) and curious to modern eyes in its use of unmistakable model trains and helicopters rather than the real thing.
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Simon, for his part, is not content to sit home and count his money. 1 'The Hunt for Red October' (1990) Everett Collection It’s always good to start at the beginning, and in this case, that’s this 1990 movie based on Clancy’s novel of the same name, starring Alec. Coleman is clearly interested in Cathy as well, so much so that Simon’s criminal activity is not something this implacable, inscrutable cop suspects. A melancholic and metallic blue sheen imbues the film and its characters with a death-like pallor fully appropriate to this fatalistic tale. The only time Coleman relaxes at all is when he visits Simon’s, one of Melville’s typically glamorous small Paris nightclubs, where showgirls dance and Simon’s girlfriend, Cathy (Deneuve), looks glam in a stunning Yves St.
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