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Un Flic
FRANCE · 1972

Un Flic

Jean-Pierre Melville
police corruption heist crime infidelity double life cat and mouse
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Synopsis

A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.

Cinema Atlas Connection
Refn mentioned that his biggest influences for Only God Forgives were Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï, Le Cercle Rouge and Un Flic along with French New Wave cinema and Thai boxing films.
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