Phillippe Noiret, Isabel Huppert d/ Bertrand Tavernier
Delightful adaptation of a Jim Thompson novel...Pop 1250...transferred to French West Africa in 1938.
Our hero is a put-upon rural police chief who begins eliminating all the bad guys in his town, either by killing them himself or orchestrating their demise by another. All the while maintaining his hang-dog, beyond suspicion demeanor. This film is a wonderful example of cross-cultural fertilization and shows vividly how core ideas can be used...in this case with humor...anywhere.
The two leads were marvelous...she was quite young here and luminous in several scenes. He had that incomparable face and air of resigned acceptance that worked in so many films.
One of my favorite off-the-wall works of world cinema.
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