Tip Top

2013

1h 46m

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

List

53%

15 Reviews

Tomatometer

22%

50+ Ratings

Audience Score

Two police inspectors travel to a province to investigate the death of an Algerian informer.

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An odd and overly-brainy mess. Skip it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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In "Tip Top," a confidential informant from Algeria has been murdered. Esther Lafarge(Isabelle Huppert) has been assigned the case. She chooses Sally Marinelli(Sandrine Kiberlain), who had been demoted to internal affairs for personal reasons, to be her assistant. Together, they investigate the case, starting by talking to the victim's wife Virginie(Karole Rochar). Robert Mendes(Francois Damiens) takes another angle, by recruiting Younes(Aymen Saidi) to be his new informant. "Tip Top" is an offbeat political mystery that is as interested in who the victim was as who the murderer is. In this immigrant milieu, reflected by rioting simultaneously occurring in Algeria, the movie is very much interested in identity. So, investigating are two women who are not so strange for their sexual fetishes but for other reasons. Sally might not have a personal identity of her own and has to copy others while Esther might just be a vampire. That being said, they still go out and do their job in the most professional way possible.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Such a disappointment. A disjointed story, unfunny (for the most part) deadpan humor, and a colossal waste of talent.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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I have no idea what drove the director to mix some personal perversity demons and unfunny political anti-correctness into a ordinary cop story, even the execution is worse than a school drama. A waste of time

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Audience Member

Awful is not a strong enough word

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Serge Bozon

Director

Isabelle Huppert

Esther Lafarge

Sandrine Kiberlain

Sally Marinelli

François Damiens

Robert Mendès

Karole Rocher

Virginie Benamar

Aymen Saidi

Younès

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

The freewheeling narrative experimentation and cryptic social commentary recall 60s Godard, but the vibe is Bozon's own.

Mar 19, 2015

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Nicholas Elliott

Film Comment Magazine

As with the Golden Age American B-movies Bozon admires, Tip Top's primary concern is not with identifying the bad guy, but with smuggling in as much additional information as possible, including televised images of the unfolding Arab Spring.

Jan 9, 2015

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Melissa Anderson

Artforum

This sui generis policier audaciously balances slapstick with a fiercely intelligent probing of the still-knotty legacy of France's colonialist past.

Dec 12, 2014

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Bozon has created another strange hybrid of form with this blackly comedic, sexually perverse examination of racial inequality and notable political bigotry.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 19, 2019

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David Noh

Film Journal International

One minute a tense police procedural, the next a wacky Almodvarian sex farce, this schizophrenic enterprise is more wearying than entertaining.

Dec 12, 2014

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Donald J. Levit

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Director Serge Bozon is not sure whether he intends a linear or non-linear sex rib-tickler or noir thriller, a female buddy cop caper or a social comment. Or all of them.

Dec 10, 2014

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Synopsis

Two police inspectors travel to a province to investigate the death of an Algerian informer.

Director: Serge Bozon
Screenwriter: Serge Bozon, Axelle Ropert
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Arabic
Release Date (Streaming): May 12, 2016
Runtime: 1h 46m

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