La Balance
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Time Out says
The mean, cobbled streets of the Belleville quartier in Paris yield up another story of love, money and death, and all the requisite shootouts, car chases and lowlife infighting are delivered with great verve and pace: but what really distinguishes this excellent thriller is Swaim's strength on the emotional front. The flics set up a pimp (Léotard) to be a new informer ('balance') by leaning on the whore he very much loves (Baye); the loyalties become more and more crossed until betrayal is the only means to salvation. Léotard is superb as the crook with a heart of glass; Baye at last breaks out of her nun's habits and gives us a tart with the strength of ten; Berry is the sympatico cop. They order these things better in France. CPea.Author: CPea
Release details
UK release:
1982
Duration:
102 mins
Cast and crew
Cast:
Maurice Ronet, Nathalie Baye, Bernard Freyd, Christophe Malavoy, Richard Berry, Philippe Léotard, Jean-Paul Connart
Producer:
Alexandre Mnouchkine, Georges Dancigers
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