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Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier, Francis Renaud, Mylène Demongeot
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about 36 Quai des Orfèvres |
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36 QUAI DES ORFEVRES is a French movie cowritten and directed by Olivier Marchal in 2004.
Léo Vrinks (Auteuil) and Denis Klein (Depardieu) are at the head of two different teams of the police forces of the city of Paris, France. Now, an audacious gang of robbers has already committed seven bloody armed robberies in Paris during the year and the Chief of Police (Dussollier) tells Vrinks and Klein that the one who'll stop the gang will replace him at the head of the police forces.
Vrinks gets a tip from an informer and manages to locate the members of the gang but Klein, while Vrinks's team is discreetly observing the hiding place of the gangsters, decides to step in and to force Vrink to follow him. Klein's stupid initiative kills one policeman while the robbers manage to escape.
A few days later, Vrinks is compromised by another informer who uses the policeman's presence to murder a criminal. Although Vrinks has witnessed the murder, he doesn't say a word to his hierarchy because his informer has given him very useful informations about the gang of robbers. Perchance, Klein hears about it and denounces his colleague who's sentenced to seven years of imprisonment.
A few months later, Klein organizes the arrest of Vrinks's informer who was trying to financially help Vrink's wife, Camille, but, during the operation, Camille is killed in an automobile accident. Seven years later, Vrinks gets out of prison with only one idea in mind: to take revenge on Klein who, in the meantime, has become the new Chief of Police.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of 36 Quai des Orfèvres |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- law enforcement gone bad
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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