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A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.
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brilliant acting, but, a nasty tale
Grim, Grungy Gallic Crime Film Interestingly Constructed
Two veteran stars bring weight to this grimy little drama with an unusual flashback structure (along with laconic captions), which despite the gorgeous Bulle Ogier appearing fleetingly as Jean Yanne's wife has strongly if unresolved homoerotic overtones.
Yanne, who serves as the film's weary cornerstone, sports a scruffy beard that makes him resemble Akim Tamiroff (who wouldn't have been at all out of place in the grungy urban hell director Jacques Audiard makes of modern Paris).