Flic ou Voyou (1979)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1979
	Director: Georges Lautner (Le Professionnel, Le Pacha, Les Tontons Fligueurs)
	Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo (Le Magnifique), Georges Géret, Jean-François Balmer, Michel Galabru
	Country: F
	Genre: Polar, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 19.12.2016, 42" TV
Synopsis: Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz (Belmondo) is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen in the South of France.
Review: It was very interesting to watch this movie by Georges Lautner back to back with his other one Le Pacha thanks to a double-feature on TV. In this movie produced 12 years later, Belmondo replaces Gabin (I remember their meeting in Un Singe en Hiver) in a strikingly similar story: a cop using unorthodox methods to eliminate gangsters. This appears to be a topic dear to Lautner. As much as Le Pacha was adapted to the sober time and style of Gabin, Flic ou Voyou is more in the extravagance of Belmondo and the 70/80's: young commissaire driving sports car and kicking asses, jazzy music (adequately used by Lautner like in Le Pacha), flashy clothes, comedy and impossible romance. Dialogs by Michel Audiard are ever present, even if infinitely more discreet than in Les Tontons Fligueurs. The movie is nice to watch for the cannonball character of Borowitz who doesn't follow many rules, but the whole thing is far too staged and unrealistic to become a classic. In fact there is just too much comedy in it.
Rating: 5 /10