My New Partner (1984)
A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...
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Philippe Noiret plays a leather-jacketed corrupt cop who is the king of his little bailiwick in one of those corners of Paris tourists never see, gruffly administering rough justice while collecting bribes and sweeteners right and left. All is well until he's stuck with a rookie partner, a handsome straight arrow college graduate (Thierry Lhermitte) with ambitions to be police commissioner one day, who believes in arresting lawbreakers instead of chasing them into someone else's neighborhood, and who is definitely cramping Noiret's style and cutting into his income. What to do? Noiret and his longtime lover, an ex-hooker who owns a bar, decide that the best way to humanize this guy is to get him involved with an expensive new girlfriend who he can't afford on a cop's salary. A suitable working girl is found, the expected happens, and by the end Noiret is retired (after a short stretch in the can) and Lhermitte has inherited his place and his way of life.No surprises along the way, but a very enjoyable ride.
What a great movie! All around good fun -- I'd recommend it to anyone. The lead actors were awesome -- does anyone else think the guy playing Francois looks like a French Baldwin brother? Anyways, the story of two crooked cops hasn't aged at all. Hard to believe this one's not on VHS or DVD yet. See it if you can.
French farce with a twist. A charming piece, better watched in French with the English subtitles, for the full effect. An American production would be too slick, or too juvenile to re-make this, but I'm surprised a British unit has not, yet! Lovely character studies, a few surprises and a plot that offers humor, or humour, with some charming locations. Well worth watching if you can find it and enjoy the 'Diva', 'style of movie that the French are best known for.
One of the comedies that are typically french, at the same time a farce and a study of characters.Certainly a well aging movie.