The characters number among them a cop and some crooks, but any resemblance to a hard-boiled policier is strictly incidental. (There's a tense car heist, even though we know ahead of time what will happen.) This is foremost a "relationship" thing, in a "realistic" mode (lapsing often into sensationalistic), pretentiously parcelled out in a nonlinear storyline with a relay team of first-person narrators. Assured performances from Daniel Auteuil as the cop and Catherine Deneuve as a philosophy professor(!) and late-blooming lesbian(!). Directed by André Téchiné. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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