But in the films he makes back home in his native France, he can be such a bad-ass, perhaps never more so than in the title role of “Mesrine: Killer Instinct,” the first in a pair of biopics on French gangster Jacques Mesrine, who died in 1979. (The sequel, “Mesrine: Public Enemy #1,” follows in […]
Gérard Depardieu
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Inspector Bellamy
Welcome to un film de Claude Chabrol, the French New Wave director who famously idolized Alfred Hitchcock. You can see that influence even in this picture, his final bow before passing away last year. It is this case of the automobile “accident” that Inspector Bellamy of Paris (Gérard Depardieu) informally investigates, despite being on vacation […]