Un flic (1972)

Directed by

Jean-Pierre Melville

Genre

drama film, heist film, crime film, neo-noir

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 293 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Parisian nightclub owner leads a heist crew. He sends his mistress to kill a wounded accomplice, while her lover a police commissioner plans a drug bust on a train.

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What happens

Un flic (lit. 'A Cop') is a 1972 crime film directed and written by Jean-Pierre Melville. The film is about a Parisian nightclub owner named Simon who leads four men to carry out on a bank robbery. One is seriously wounded and taken to a clinic. Fearing the police will locate him, Simon sends his mistress Cathy to kill him. Cathy's lover, Commissaire Édouard Coleman learns from an informer that a large quantity of drugs are being transported by the Paris-Lisbon train and intends to intercept it. The film was the third collaboration between Melville and actor Alain Delon. It was set to be shot in three months starting November 13. On set, Melville and Delon often argued which was not the case on their previous productions. The film was released in France on October 25, 1972, where it performed less well in the box office than Melville and Delon's previous collaboration with Le Cercle Rouge (1970). It was Melville's last film as he died the next year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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