Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
- adultery
- based on novel or book
- love triangle
- dark comedy
- murder
- police corruption
- mistress
- racism
- french noir
- framed for a crime
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Philippe Noiret
Lucien Cordier
Isabelle Huppert
Rose Mercaillou
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Le Peron / Le Peron's twin brother
Stéphane Audran
Huguette Cordier
- Eddy Mitchell — Nono
- Guy Marchand — Marcel Chavasson
- Michel Beaune — Vanderbrouck
- Jean Champion — Le curé
- Victor Garrivier — Marcaillou
- Gérard Hernandez — Leonelli
- Daniel Langlet — Paulo
- Irène Skobline — Anne, l'institutrice
- Abdoulaye Diop — Fête Nat
- François Perrot — Colonel Tramichel
- Samba Mané — Vendredi
- Directed
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Written
- Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Aurenche
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 224 ratings
- Studio
- Les Films de la Tour, Little Bear, Films A2
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
