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Police (1985)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089821/
Masters of Cinema Series # 77
http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/police/
Director: Maurice Pialat
Description: Maurice Pialat's Police delivers on the raw promise of its title, insofar as much of its action qualifies as an insistently 'procedural' descent into the Paris drugs underworld. But the hyper-real route that the film takes to arrive there, before veering into a zone of dangerous emotional play, contributes to a disorienting, adventurous, and ultimately tremendously exciting experience unlike any 'police-thriller' ever before conceived.
The iconic Gerard Depardieu plays Mangin, a cop whose brutal method of investigation finds its obsessive outlet in an attempt to crack a Tunisian narcotics ring. It is when Mangin enters into close acquaintance with the defiant Noria (expertly played by Sophie Marceau in one of her first screen roles) that the film proceeds to chart an unexpected, emotionally ambiguous course -- and the lines between 'right' and 'wrong', and 'power' and 'freedom', terminally blur.
Police is a genre-defying excursion rivaled only by John Cassavetes' The Killing of a Chinese Bookie in the pantheon of cinema's most idiosyncratic thrillers. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Maurice Pialat's daring 1985 film in a magnificent restored transfer for the first time on DVD in the UK.
Format: PAL (UK release)
DVD Size: 6.35 + 4.66 GB - Exact Untouched Copy
Time (main feature): 109 minutes
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 OAR
Sound: French
Subtitles: English
SPECIAL EDITION 2-DISC SET:
# New anamorphic transfer of the film in its original aspect ratio.
# New and improved English subtitle translations.
# 2003 video interview with director and Police co-screenwriter Catherine Breillat, conducted by former Cahiers du cinema editor-in-chief, and current director of the Cinematheque Francaise, Serge Toubiana.
# Vintage screen-tests featuring Maurice Pialat and C. Galmiche, the inspiration for the character of Lambert.
# Excerpt from a 1985 episode of Cinema Cinemas shot during the course of the 17th day of production on Police.
# 23-minute video discussion with Yann Dedet, the editor of Police.
# The film's original trailer, along with trailers for other Maurice Pialat films to be released by The Masters of Cinema Series.
DVD Distributor: Eureka Entertainment Ltd.
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