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Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran, Caroline Cellier, Jean Topart, Pauline Lafont, Lucas Belvaux
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Cop au Vin |
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COP AU VIN (Poulet au Vinaigre) is a movie written and directed by Claude Chabrol in 1984. The picture was nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.
Inspector Lavardin is sent to a small town in order to investigate about a car crash. There is a strange atmosphere in the village, the doctor's wife has disappeared, Anna, the friend of the doctor's wife, also suddenly disappears and everybody wants Lavardin out of town. Is there murder in the air ?
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Cop au Vin |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Very obvious
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 50%
Special suspect?
- relative
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- white
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- doctor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Forest?
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Misc setting
- scientific labs
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- flamed
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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