Capital Celluloid 2023 — Day 90: Fri Mar 31

Détective (Godard, 1985): Close-Up Cinema, 8.15pm


This tremendous Jean-Luc Godard film (which also screens omn March 23rd) is part of the year-long Godard season at Close-Up Cinema. You can find all the details here.

Time Out review:
A mini-masterpiece, this is a cross between a ‘Grand Hotel’ for the 1980s and film noir: a crumbling Paris hotel houses four groups of people whose paths occasionally cross. One is the group around detective Terzieff, still trying to solve a murder of years ago; another is the entourage of boxer Tiger Jones, in training with his manager (Johnny Hallyday); another is a couple on the verge of breaking up; and the last is the Mafia. Much of it, especially Léaud (Terzieff’s nephew-aide) and Cuny as a Godfather who judges men by their toilet habits, is riotously funny. Built on the charisma of its stars and on memories of the great thrillers of the ’40s, tenuously held together by Godard’s romantic pessimism, curiosity and sense of humour, it’s co-dedicated, sensibly, to Clint Eastwood.
Tony Rayns

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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