Movie

Dear Inspector

1978 · 105 min

A breezy, charming French comedy that pairs a murder mystery with a warm middle-aged romance, easy to enjoy and light on its feet.

Overview: 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.
How it feels: Warm, light, romantic and satirical. Measured and easy to follow.
About: Love, mystery, deception, crime
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
mystery
deception
crime
identity
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild