Le saut de l'ange

1971
1h 35m

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6.2/10

374

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Crime Drama

The electoral battle is raging in Marseilles. The Corsican Clan, under the rule of the Orsini family, is being challenged by the next generation, younger gangsters who support the candidatur... Read allThe electoral battle is raging in Marseilles. The Corsican Clan, under the rule of the Orsini family, is being challenged by the next generation, younger gangsters who support the candidature of Forestier, an estate promoter. To ensure his election and to get his hands on the cit... Read allThe electoral battle is raging in Marseilles. The Corsican Clan, under the rule of the Orsini family, is being challenged by the next generation, younger gangsters who support the candidature of Forestier, an estate promoter. To ensure his election and to get his hands on the city, Forestier stops at nothing and has the Orsini brothers liquidated one by one. During th... Read all

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6.2/10

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Trivia
French certificate: -13.

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Features Coplan sauve sa peau (1968)

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4/10

Violent and absurd thriller.

Yves Boisset has always been a director with a political obsession.IN the seventies,he hit his stride with such work as "RAS" ,"Dupont-Lajoie- (which will probably remains his best work- and even "le juge Fayard dit le shériff".Afterward,his filmography became more disparate ,but his ambitions surfaced again in "allons enfants" (1981) and in his excellent made-for-TV "le pantalon "(1997).

"Le saut de l'ange" ,on the other hand ,has almost nothing to recommend it;for the time is was an extremely violent movie, which actually recalls more Boisset's first effort ,"Coplan sauve sa peau" (1967) than his "serious" political films.A far-fetched script,which includes a lot of sadism(a man with his two legs broken given over to a cobra,ouch!), and all kinds of crimes and brutality under a caricature of a police 's faraway eye.No need to say that the political background is quickly forgotten,as the audience follows Yanne's ruthless revenge.

The cast is absurd :the late Yanne, a decorative Senta Berger ,and Sterling Hayden who is completely wasted -he's supposed to be an alcoholic,but we never see him drink anything,not even Perrier -.