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 date	25 April 1979 (1979-04-25)
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

Patrick Dewaere as Franck Poupart
Myriam Boyer as Jeanne
Marie Trintignant as Mona
Bernard Blier as Staplin
Jeanne Herviale as Mona's aunt
Andreas Katsulas as Andreas Tikides
Charlie Farnel as Marcel, the police inspector
Samuel Mek as the boxer
Jack Jourdan as the trainer
Fernand Coquet as the Hell's Angel

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: Série noire". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 24 May 2009.

External links

Série noire on IMDb

Films directed by Alain Corneau
La Menace (1977) Série noire (1979) Fort Saganne (1984) Nocturne Indien (1989) Tous les Matins du Monde (1991) New World (1995) Lumière and Company (1995) Le cousin (1997) Le prince du Pacifique (2000) Fear and Trembling (2003) Words in Blue (2005) Love Crime (2010)

Works by Jim Thompson

Novels

Now and on Earth (1942)
Heed the Thunder (aka Sins of the Fathers) (1946)
Nothing More Than Murder (1949)
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
Cropper's Cabin (1952)
Recoil (1953)
The Alcoholics (1953)
Savage Night (1953)
Bad Boy (1953)
The Criminal (1953)
The Golden Gizmo (1954)
Roughneck (1954)
A Swell-Looking Babe (1954)
A Hell of a Woman (1954)
The Nothing Man (1954)
After Dark, My Sweet (1955)
The Kill-Off (1957)
Wild Town (1957)
The Getaway (1958)
The Transgressors (1961)
The Grifters (1963)
Pop. 1280 (1964)
Texas By the Tail (1965)
South of Heaven (1967)
Child of Rage (1972)
King Blood (1973)
Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988)
The Rip-Off (1989)

Films

The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Getaway (1972)
The Killer Inside Me (1976)
Série noire (1979)
Coup de Torchon (1981)
After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
The Kill-Off (1990)
The Grifters (1990)
The Getaway (1994)
Hit Me (1996)
This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
The Killer Inside Me (2010)

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