36th Precinct
2005 ‘36 Quai des Orfèvres’ Directed by Olivier Marchal
Synopsis
The Film takes place in Paris,where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal,a former police officer who spent 12 years with the french police before creating this story,which in part is taken from real facts that happened during the 1980's in France.
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Acting is good,
soundtrack not so significant,
no significant sights, screenshots or costumes.
Dialoge is nice and terse.
It is a French version of a German krimi: a police movie.
The theme is one of the old ones in the book: injustice. What is done about the injustice would be a spoiler.
The setting is Paris and some corrupt people in the policeforce.
There is a good guy, he suffers the injustice. Somehow the movie did not manage for me to care a lot about that, which is unfortunate because that seemed to be the aim of the movie.
Cannot recommend it. -
An absolutely ridiculous film. Nothing anyone does at any point follows any sort of logic. The film opens with a mob of drunken French cops discharging hundreds of rounds into the wall of a tavern because they see a mouse, an act for which there is somehow no consequences. It sets the tone perfectly, because nothing any of the cops do from then on makes any sense. They all wear $3000 dollar long leather coats because that's how cool cops dress. They somehow manage to botch every single arrest or operation they undertake. They frame or assassinate one another. Their motivations make even less sense than their actions. The conflict between the hero cop and the evil cop just sort…
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Good Performances by Auteuil and Depardieu but the story is quinte obvious and ordinary.
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Popcorn French cop-drama. Not exactly profound but très agréable.
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Daniel Auteuil (Leo Vrinks) and Gerard Depardieu (Dennis Klein) are both cops with questionable methods, both are vying for the position of Director. At the same time a gang is running around in Paris committing robberies. The position of director will be given to either to Leo or Dennis, pending who is able to catch the gang.
Both Leo and Dennis use every method in order to get what they want with disastrous results.
Directed by Oliver Marchal, who used to be a cop and worked in Paris before he turned to acting and directing movies.
Given the dark nature of this movie, as well as Mr 73, I can only guess he doesn't look back on his police career fondly.
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Acting is good,
soundtrack not so significant,
no significant sights, screenshots or costumes.
Dialoge is nice and terse.
It is a French version of a German krimi: a police movie.
The theme is one of the old ones in the book: injustice. What is done about the injustice would be a spoiler.
The setting is Paris and some corrupt people in the policeforce.
There is a good guy, he suffers the injustice. Somehow the movie did not manage for me to care a lot about that, which is unfortunate because that seemed to be the aim of the movie.
Cannot recommend it. -
Despite a terrible script, a disgusting score and some lousy direction, 36th Precinct is more engaging than it perhaps should be.
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The sweet spot in Marchal's directorial trajectory. Unreal, unstable, relentlessy fascinating.
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36 quai des orfèvres
"Daniel Auteuil was excellent in this tale of bad French policemen. The story was gripping throughout, although let down a little by some very unlikely plot twists (and yes I know that this is based on true stories).
I watched the subtitled (not dubbed) version." -
I enjoyed this for the most part, but I think watching subtitled films whilst feeling tired and crotchety probably isn’t to be recommended. I’m not sure if it’s because I wasn’t following it all properly, but it felt very fragmented. I found it hard to get a real grip of the story or the characters.
It felt very Hollywood-ised and over dramatized. Klein and Vrinks were competing for the top job and there was some antagonism between the two detectives but the reasons behind that were never explained at all – more hinted at. Neither plot or characters were properly developed and rather then telling a coherent storyline I felt as if things were just jumping from one scene to…
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Outstanding performance of both Daniël Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu. A real French dark movie with lots of plot changes. Great cinematographic work of former police officer Olivier Marechal; you really feel the breath of reality through the characters. Nice supportive music from Erwann Kermorvant.
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36 Quai des Orfevres, named after the police headquarters in Paris, is an entertaining but flawed thriller, loosely based on real events. Jean de Florette co-stars Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu play rival officers - and former friends - striving to bring in a gang of ruthless bank robbers. It is a case that will define their careers and change their lives forever: one for better, one for worse. The characters, that is, not the actors. Former cop Marchal is good on the day-to-day details, but his forays into fiction are largely unsuccessful, striving for epic tragedy and finding only melodrama. The dovetailing of twin narratives, in the vein of Murder, My Sweet or Le Doulos (referenced overtly in the…
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An absolutely ridiculous film. Nothing anyone does at any point follows any sort of logic. The film opens with a mob of drunken French cops discharging hundreds of rounds into the wall of a tavern because they see a mouse, an act for which there is somehow no consequences. It sets the tone perfectly, because nothing any of the cops do from then on makes any sense. They all wear $3000 dollar long leather coats because that's how cool cops dress. They somehow manage to botch every single arrest or operation they undertake. They frame or assassinate one another. Their motivations make even less sense than their actions. The conflict between the hero cop and the evil cop just sort…