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Actors: Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve, Paul Crauchet, Jean Desailly, André Pousse
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Un Flic
UN FLIC ( sometimes translated as "Dirty Money" in english speaking countries ) is a movie written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1973.

These are two parallel stories in the last movie of the french director. Four men rob a bank in order to raise the cash to organize an audacious train robbery. Their scheme succeed and they manage to steal a case filled with heroin.

The second plot concerns Alain Delon, a police captain in love with Catherine Deneuve, one of the robber's girl-friends. Delon's investigations will finally cross the path of his friends.

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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%



Time/Era of Movie: - 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story? Yes
Criminal enemy is... - drug dealers - robber
If this is a criminal POV story... - Armed robbery!
Romance Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 20's-30's
Hair color? - brunette (Black)
Hair style - short/standard straight (man)
Body type - average (man)
Events of movie makes character more... - sad
Ethnicity/Nationality - French
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - blonde
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
How much in movie? - 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality - French

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - businessman, small
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 80%
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/standard wavey
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - French
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - France
City? Yes
Misc setting - resort/hotel - moving train

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel... - concerned
How many deaths in film? - 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing
Kind of violence: - guns
Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets
Non-American film? Yes
What language? - French
Subtitles? - Yes
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