Série noire (film)
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Série noire is a 1979 French drama film directed by Alain Corneau. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.
It is based on the novel A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson.
Plot
Franck Poupart is a door-to-door salesman. His wife leaves him when he knocks her into a bathtub filled with water after she refuses to make him dinner. Then he gets imprisoned for embezzlement. Mona, an underage prostitute he meets early in the film, bails him out and persuades him to rob her rich aunt. Poupart kills the aunt, and then murders his accomplice to frame him for the crime. However, his streak of bad luck (série noire in French) continues, for his wife returns, unannounced and pregnant, and suspects him of murder. He murders her, and then his boss robs him of his booty, leaving him alone and broke with the besotted Mona.
Cast
- Patrick Dewaere - Franck Poupart
- Myriam Boyer - Jeanne
- Marie Trintignant - Mona
- Bernard Blier - Staplin
- Jeanne Herviale - The aunt
- Andreas Katsulas - Andreas Tikides
- Charlie Farnel - Marcel, the police inspector
- Samuel Mek - The boxer
- Jack Jourdan - The trainer
- Fernand Coquet - The Hell's Angel
