Série noire (film)

Série noire

Film poster
Directed by Alain Corneau
Produced by Maurice Bernart
Written by Alain Corneau
Georges Perec
Jim Thompson
Starring Patrick Dewaere
Music by Gérard Lenorman
Cinematography Pierre-William Glenn
Edited by Thierry Derocles
Release dates
  • 25 April 1979
Running time
111 minutes
Country France
Language French

Série noire is a 1979 French crime film directed by Alain Corneau. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It is based on the novel Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson.

Plot

Franck Poupart is a door-to-door salesman. His wife leaves him when she finds out he got involved with an underage prostitute named Mona. Then he gets sacked and imprisoned for embezzlement. Mona bails him out and persuades him to rob her rich aunt. But his streak of bad luck (série noire in French) continues because his still upset wife returns unannounced and she comes across the booty.

Cast

References

  1. "Festival de Cannes: Série noire". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-24.

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