A fake murder confession leads a detective down a rabbit hole of lies, lust, and very French chaos.
Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val, intrigued, decides to investigate.
Acting
Bruno Cremer's world-weary charm carries the entire mess.
Production
Grimy Paris locations that feel accidentally documentary.
Director
Roger Kay
Bruno Cremer
Valentin 'Val' Brosse
Catherine Alric
Françoise Dubois
Charles Vanel
Mathieu Fortier
Boramy Tioulong
Divisional commissioner Ky-Thieu
Jean-Pierre Darras
Colonel Jean-Hilaire Marcellin
Marthe Mercadier
Odette Rupert
Jean Topart
Nicolas Octave Marcellin, pharmacist
Catherine Samie
Pharmacist
Françoise Engel
Mathilde Marcellin, the colonel
Gérard Séty
Rossi
Jean Martin
Gérard Le Tizou, head waiter
Anne Canovas
Brigitte Marcellin
Roland Bertin
Max, insurance manager
René Clermont
Notary
Jérôme Zucca
Kid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Roger Kay abandoned cinema after this, making it his accidental swan song to an unimpressed world.
This sits in the weird gap between the nouvelle vague's end and the 1980s commercial boom—too late for cool, too early for irony.
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