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Le Petit Lieutenant (2005)

4 Ratings: 3.3

Art House & International movie directed by Xavier Beauvois

As long as there are cops and criminals, the police procedural will persist. The subgenre appeals to those who truly believe the devil is in the details. In his fourth feature, writer/director Xavier Beauvois may not reinvent the form, but he gets the … see full wiki

Tags: Movies, Foreign Movies

Cast: Jacques Perrin, Nathalie Baye, Jalil Lespert, Antoine Chappey, Roschdy Zem

Director: Xavier Beauvois

Genre: Foreign

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review by Charley2. May 06, 2011

posted in Love of Foreign Films

A fine police procedural that, half-way through, delivers an unexpected emotional wallop

"There was the liver, the lungs, the heart, all set out on the table like a butcher's display box," says new police lieutenant Antoine Derouere (Jalil Lespert). "This'll sound stupid but I thought of Mozart. I thought, 'How can that stuff compose music like that?'" In Le Petit Lieutenant, Derouere is newly graduated from the police academy in his home town of Le Havre. He gets his first choice of an assignment, a plain-clothes homicide … more

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review by JP_Rocky_Raccoon. July 10, 2007

posted in Movie Hype

'Le Petit' Noir

(3 1/2) While watching `Le Petit Lieutenant' I had to keep asking myself, `Why is this movie anything better than a US crime series?' Often watching foreign movies, I have to back up and say, 'How can I judge this movie?' After all, there is a temptation to give a French movie an unfair advantage or to demote its value based on American standard or yardstick. Either way is an insult to everyone. Comparing, `Le Petit Lieutenant' to `Law and Order,' a fine American crime series, yielded some results. … more

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review by gradyharp. April 15, 2007

A Deeply Touching View of Policemen

Director Xavier Beauvois, with the intelligent and sensitive script he co-wrote with Cédric Anger, Guillaume Bréaud and Jean-Eric Troubat, allows us, the viewers, to look inside the minds and lives of those people who commit to police work in a manner that pays homage to a maligned group and reinstates our visceral support to the spectrum of on the edge terror mixed with spaces of ennui that these people endure. LA PETIT LIEUTENANT is not a crime film: it is a deeply touching inside view of the … more

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