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Audience Member A côté de ça, 36 quai des Orfevres est vraiment une grosse daube. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the best police procedural movies you've never seen, one reminiscent in style and tone to the great "Z". Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member LE film de keufs par excellence. Répliques cultes, personnages plus vrais que nature... Bijou. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Don't believe reviews based on the premise that this is a failed policier, it simply uses cinema verite style rather than being a plot-driven genre vehicle. It is as if the cops are ethnographers observing and interacting with the multi-ethnic informers and addicts of France's internal colony of crime. In that sense, one might compare the politics and strategic humor of it to Coup de Torchon's shift in setting. Although, it is only noir in the sense of depicting the ironies of a broken system, petty corruption, and well-intentioned cops who are often punished when they have any little effect at all. Fans of gritty `70s cop movies, The Wire, or poliziotteschi might find this an unpretentious sort of bridging film. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member This French Cop film may be a touch overlong and have no real structure but on the whole its not too bad as the director takes elements of Friedkin and others and gives us a powerful study of a group of French narcotics policeman and there daily grind coming up against dealers and users in equal measure. In the role of Lulu the streetwise narc cop Didier Bezac conveys a whole range of emotions as he tries to balance his work and homelife and finds frustration in both. His colleagues are ither bitter or corrupt and theres a nice running gag involving a bucket of water. The biggest problem is they film could have done with some trimming as it does feel a little laboured in parts. But then i guess Tavernier wanted to give us the full picture and in some respects thats no bad thing although a better ending would have helped. No cop classic then but still worth a view to get an idea how other nations deal with a drugs problem Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Un vrai docu-fiction : toute une profession, tout un monde, toute une à (C)poque. Les rôles sont vrais (le scà (C)nario est d'un ancien policier) et les acteurs sont très très bons. On est littà (C)ralement happà (C) dans le film, on vit et on ressent cette humanità (C) qui transpire pendant plus de 2h20. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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