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Detective

1985 · 95 min

A dense, playful puzzle of intersecting lives in a hotel, mixing noir atmosphere with Godard's cerebral detachment.

Tagline
A woman, two men, a love story, a murder, a boxing-match, the mafia...
Overview
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.

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Tone
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • betrayal
  • greed
  • obsession
  • crime
  • love
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour4
Realism6
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity8
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, crime, drama
Directed by
Jean-Luc Godard
Written by
Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Sarde, Anne-Marie Miéville, Philippe Setbon
Starring
Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Brasseur, Johnny Hallyday, Nathalie Baye, Alain Cuny, Emmanuelle Seigner
Cinematography
Pierre Novion, Louis Bihi
Runtime
95 min
Country
France, Switzerland
Languages
English, French, Italian

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