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Film Description
Melville's final film was his thirteenth, a thriller inspired by the classical American models he adored. With a disregard for narrative coherence bordering on the insulting, he follows a cop across the city as the cop gradually loses it. The set-piece opening of a bank robbery on a windy coast is exceptional.
As atmospheric opening sequences go, Un Flic is a beauty, starting with the robbery of a bank in an out-of-season coastal town, rain lashing down around the protagonis... more >
As atmospheric opening sequences go, Un Flic is a beauty, starting with the robbery of a bank in an out-of-season coastal town, rain lashing down around the protagonists.
Delon plays the "Flic" of the title, lending his customary glacial cool to the proceedings has he endeavours to bring Crenna to justice.
Nowhere near as iconic as Le Samourai, Un Flic is not Melville's greatest work, let down as it is by some decidedly "Thunderbirds" special effects during a key sequence. Deneuve is wasted, her part little more than decoration.
The film is very much of its time, rather than being timeless, but it does have curiosity value, featuring as it does, the talents of Richard Crenna. Un Flic passes the time amiably enough on a wet winter's Sunday afternoon.
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