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My New Partner (Les ripoux), German lobby card. German theatrical release 1985
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My New Partner (Les ripoux), German lobby card. German theatrical release 1985
Les Ripoux (1984)
Philippe Noiret (one of my all-time favourite actors - French or otherwise) starred in Claude Zidi's ground-breaking French comedy-thriller "Les Ripoux" as René Boirond. a bent copper teaching his new partner (Thierry Lhermitte) to be as crooked as he is.
Noiret plays a little against his usual type, here. A loveable rogue, with a greedy streak and a way of using his status as a copper to get one over on almost everyone he meets.
Personally, I think it's a masterpiece of its type, and not just because Noiret gets me so aroused. It's one of my favourite films.
Love the moustache BTW. The film spawned a couple of sequels: "Ripoux Contre Ripoux" (1990), which is quite good, and "Les Ripoux 3" (2003), which is abysmal.
The original, however, is the best by far and Noiret is the best in a cast of excellent actors.
"Ripoux", if you are not au fait with French, is Parisian back-slang. It's a corruption of "pourri", meaning rotten, and applies to corrupt policemen, or bent coppers as we Londoners like to term them. Bless 'em one and all.
MY NEW PARTNER [Les Ripoux] (1984) dir. Claude Zidi
Les ripoux, 1984 Dir. Claude Zidi
My New Partner (Les ripoux). German lobby card. German theatrical release 1985
My New Partner (Les ripoux), German lobby card. German theatrical release 1985
My New Partner (Les ripoux), German lobby card. German theatrical release 1985