Late one October night in 1999, a young woman leaves a friend's apartment
and finds herself alone in a Paris street. She has no money and no
means of identification and her name is Carole. Not sure what to do
next, she hails a taxi and is soon cruising down the empty streets of the
capital, with no destination in mind. Seeing that the woman cannot
pay her fare, the taxi driver takes her to the nearest police station.
It is too late for Carole to be interviewed, so she is dropped off at a nearby
hotel run by Max. Here, she is met by an unashamed communist, Voix
Grave, who takes advantage of the opportunity to go off on one of his anti-authority
tirades. Meanwhile, the police are busy conducting a search for a prostitute,
who happens to be the exact double of Carole...
Cast:Bruno Cremer (Silver, le taxi),
Laure Marsac (Carole),
Didier Bezace (Dubrovsky),
Maka Kotto (Max),
Bernard Verley (L'inspecteur de la première ragle),
Jacqueline Guenin (La fliquette),
Marianne Groves (La prostituée),
François Caron (Jérôme),
Eric Viellard (Julien),
Aurore Clément (Aurore Beauvois),
Delphine Rich (Mme de Verselle),
Eric Laugérias
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 90 min
The best of Indian cinema
Forget Bollywood, the best of India's cinema is to be found elsewhere, most notably in the extraordinary work of Satyajit Ray.
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.
In the 1940s, the shadowy, skewed visual style of 1920s German expressionism was taken up by directors of American thrillers and psychological dramas, creating that distinctive film noir look.