Synopsis
A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.
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Cast
- Gérard DepardieuPaul Bellamy
- Clovis CornillacJacques Lebas
- Marie BunelFrançoise Bellamy
- Jacques GamblinNoël Gentil / Emile Leullet / Denis Leprince
- Vahina GiocanteNadia Sancho
- Marie MatheronMadame Leullet
- Adrienne PaulyClaire Bonheur
- Yves VerhoevenAlain
- Bruno Abraham-KremerBernard
- Rodolphe PaulyL'avocat
Recommendations
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The New Yorker
This final film -- after so many dazzling studies of adultery, such as "La Femme Infidele (1969) -- is a touching and unfashionable hymn to married love. [1 Nov. 2010, p.121] - 80
NPR
Inspector Bellamy is dedicated to the memory of two famous Georges: the drily ironic singer Brassens, and Georges Simenon, whose crime novels go for the jugular of bourgeois France - and dig deep into the black hearts of those who, just when they imagine they have hit bottom, can always sink lower. - 80
The New York Times
The ease and professionalism that distinguished this prolific director's later work is very much in evidence, as is an insouciant attitude, at once resigned and dismissive, toward mortality. - 75
New York Post
Inspector Bellamy leaves a sense not unlike a summary of Chabrol's entire career -- of guilty stains seeping away in every direction, of motives hidden and of endless stories that frustrate full understanding. To Chabrol, no life is ever a closed case. - 70
Variety
This upscale talkfest, which delights in its witty banter and sly references, could be helmer's most commercial work in quite some time. - 70
Village Voice
It's an ostensive crime film at once symmetrical, surprising, and knowingly cinephilic. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Depardieu and Marie Bunel (as Bellamy's wife) have a terrific interplay, but Chabrol's sharp direction can't quite rescue his fuzzy script. - 60
Time Out
Depardieu and Cornillac's sibling rivalry, which segues between mostly verbal smackdowns and liquored-up bursts of merriment, is beautifully observed, as is the relationship between the detective and his devoted wife (the wonderful Marie Bunel). The thriller stuff, by comparison, is just a lot of perfunctory deadweight.
