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La Balance [DVD] [1983]
 
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La Balance [DVD] [1983]

DVD ~ Nathalie Baye
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet, Philippe Leotard Rufus
  • Directors: Bob Swaim
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: C'est La Vie
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Sep 2004
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002LUAF2
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,590 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A brigade of cutthroat police inspectors use "narcs" to supply them with information regarding a drug syndicate. Most of the paid informants end up dead, so they are forced to recruit a new insider, one who is close to the action. The violent vice cop picks Dede (Leotard), a charming and connected pimp, to rat on his former boss who is now his arch enemy. LA BALANCE (The Informer) features another striking performance from French beauty Nathalie Baye as Dede's prostitute girlfriend.

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10 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Flat Flic Flick, 20 Jul 2005
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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'La Balance' left me distinctly unimpressed when I first saw it ten years ago, but I decided to give it a second chance with lower expectations. No joy. Every now and then a resolutely ordinary movie somehow catches the critics' imagination for no apparent reason, and in 1982 it was Bob Swaim's flat flic thriller's turn.

It has a good use of location and sense of place (the other Paris populated by Algerians and hookers), but the plot is fairly trite and the characterisation underdeveloped: there are no surprises here other than just how much it looks like any number of forgettable straight-to-video cop movies from the 80s. Phillipe Leotard is excellent as the pimp in love with his mealticket, but he's the only one who really looks like he belongs in this world - despite their capable performances, Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet and Christophe Malavoy all seem like the usual movie stereotypes. There's little tension aside from one brief scene in a warehouse and the constant movie referencing (the cops' characters are defined by the movie posters behind their desks: yes, it's that facile) just gets wearing after a while. And the bit with the Walkman near the end is just absurd and completely unbelievable. Watchable but dull more often than any thriller has a right to be.

The DVD is impressive, however - audio commentary, interview with Swaim, trailers and two of his short films, although I had no joy finding the 'Easter Egg' storyboards.

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11 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Parisian Masterpiece, 12 Sep 2004
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The seedier side of romantic, beautiful Paris had never really been shown until La Balance came out. The hard-nosed cops, seedy drug -pushers and sassy hookers, but they are all on show in this masterpiece. A cast that would cost many millions today, amazing performances from all (Nathalie Baye , Richard Berry, Philippe Leotard and Tcheky Karyo)lots of awards and a story of corruption in the underbelly of the Parisien gangsterdom.
This fabulous DVD also has lots of great extras, even a hidden 'Easter Egg', check it out and wonder how Hollywood never grabbed it for a re-make. MN
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5.0 out of 5 stars Grass, 4 Dec 2008
By Charles Vasey (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This is an splendid policier set in Paris (chiefly around Belleville). In a shooting war between a gang and the Parisian police heavy mob the police need an informant (balance) and they have just the man. Preassuring the ex-con (with a face that has seen a boxing match or two) and his lover (a call girl) eventually grinds him between the twin wheels of gangs and police. The acting is superb, the informant anti-hero being particularly strong, and the action gritty and violent.
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5.0 out of 5 stars French cops and a Paris the tourist does not see
A French crime thriller from the eighties to match the classics from the fifties. The film opens with the brutal murder of an police informer in the Belleville area of Paris. Read more
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