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La Balance [1983]
from C'est La Vie
starring Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet, Philippe Leotard Rufus
directed by Bob Swaim

Features:

• PAL
• Widescreen

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Flat Flic Flick
  'La Balance' left me distinctly unimpressed when I first saw it ten years ago, but I decided to give it a second chance with lower expectations. No joy. Every now and then a resolutely ordinary movie somehow catches the critics' imagination for no apparent reason, and in 1982 it was Bob Swaim's flat flic thriller's turn.

  It has a good use of location and sense of place (the other Paris populated by Algerians and hookers), but the plot is fairly trite and the characterisation underdeveloped: there are no... more info

• French cops and a Paris the tourist does not see
  A French crime thriller from the eighties to match the classics from the fifties. The film opens with the brutal murder of an police informer in the Belleville area of Paris. The police plan to catch the local criminal boss by turning a pimp (Philippe Leotard) into an informer. Leotard and his prostitute girlfriend (Nathalie Baye) are portrayed as the victims of a ruthless policeman (Richard Berry) who will use them anyway he can to get the result he wants. Indeed this film can be classed as a love story,... more info

• A Parisian Masterpiece
  The seedier side of romantic, beautiful Paris had never really been shown until La Balance came out. The hard-nosed cops, seedy drug -pushers and sassy hookers, but they are all on show in this masterpiece. A cast that would cost many millions today, amazing performances from all (Nathalie Baye , Richard Berry, Philippe Leotard and Tcheky Karyo)lots of awards and a story of corruption in the underbelly of the Parisien gangsterdom.
  This fabulous DVD also has lots of great extras, even a hidden 'Easter... more info

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