Dear Inspector

Dear Inspector

1978 · 105 min · FR · 5.9 (90 votes)
Dir. Philippe de Broca · Starring Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps, Paulette Dubost, Roger Dumas · Music Georges Delerue · Inspector Tanquerelle
Comedy

When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.

VIBE

A breezy, witty French comedy of errors. Sparks fly between old flames as a police inspector juggles a murder investigation and a rekindled romance, all with a charmingly sophisticated, lighthearted touch.

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