Serie Noire

Serie Noire

1979 · 111 min · FR · 7.5 (123 votes)
Dir. Alain Corneau · Starring Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant, Bernard Blier, Jeanne Herviale, Andreas Katsulas
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Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution.

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This film feels like a grim, existential descent into the Parisian underbelly. It's a raw, unflinching look at desperation and moral compromise, carried by a suffocating atmosphere and a palpable sense of dread.

grittybleaktensenihilisticsteadyFrench noirneo-realistcharacter studydesperationexploitationmoral decayurban alienation
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