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Philippe LabroDrehbuch:
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Pascal MartiBesetzung:
Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Carole Bouquet, Bernard Fresson, Charlotte de Turckheim, Jacques Weber, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Jacques Herlin (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Paul is a successful lawyer. Among others he represents the investor Pervillard. Paul falls in love with a young lady named Sacha. When he learns she got sacked because she wouldn't let Pervillard molest her, he makes her case public... Sacha (Nathalie Baye) is a divorced woman from the Left Bank of the Seine, out of a job because she refused to bestow sexual favors in the line of duty. Paul (Gérard Depardieu) is a lawyer from the Right Bank whom Sacha first rejects and then accepts when she sees his noble behavior on television. Paul has become well-established because of some shady moral compromises but suddenly finds his backbone when he turns against the crooked tycoon he had represented - 'Président' Pervillard - and does so on public television. Paul has given up everything for his love of Sacha, and now she is in danger from the vengeful tycoon - not to mention Paul's irate wife. (Verleiher-Text)
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When I see Gérard Depardieu in the leading role, I expect a well-done French movie. After all, that is typical for films from France made in the seventies and eighties. However, this movie introduces a very interesting premise (topical even today) in such a way that in two thirds of the movie almost nothing happens. Gérard plays a lawyer who is drowning in money and then sees the light. But as much as the two thirds are dull, in the last third it finally begins and there is one absurd scene after another. First I didn’t understand the scene where Gérard slightly knocks a car and they turn it into an accident as big as if he had fallen with a car from a fifty-meter steep slope. And then I was knocked down by the finale, which I expected to be brutal, as is typical for French movies, and all I got was a brawl that is over before it even begins. The guy who is getting beaten by Gérard loses his contact lenses, so they look for them together, then they shake hands and the end credits roll.
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