Product Details

• Actors: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori, Claudine Auger, Maurice Biraud
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Kino Video
• DVD Release Date: August 16, 2005
• Run Time: 112 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009XRZMO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,338 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Flic Story" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

FLIC STORY - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but no Melville, December 3, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Flic Story (DVD)

Flic Story relates the true story of a relatively honest French detective (Delon) attempting to find an escaped and very dangerous criminal (Trintignant). Almost immediately out of the mental institution, Trintignant goes on a cold-blooded killing spree, which includes the murder of a police officer. Delon's associates prefer beating up suspects to exhort confessions, but Delon prefers a softer, low key style. An obligatory subway chase scene is included.

This movie is good, but not in the same league as Melville's Le Samourai or Le Cercle Rouge. Delon is cool of course (and so is Trintignant) but Melville adds those little touches that enhance the atmosphere and add depth to the characters. I definitely recommend this film to devoted fans of French gangster films. For those not as familiar with the genre, I would try Melville's films first.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay policier, but could have been much better, March 5, 2006

By 

Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Flic Story (DVD)

Flic Story is an uninspired but serviceable period thriller with Alain Delon's honest cop tracking down Jean-Louis Trintignant's psychotic killer in post-war France. The true story is better than the execution, which mixes good but sparing location work with a lot of studio interiors to not always seamless effect, but it's only in the last couple of far too brief scenes where Delon and Trintignant's characters get to know each other that the film really shows what it could have been.

The letterboxed transfer is more than acceptable but less than outstanding, while the extras consist of brief stills gallery, trailer and unsubtitled trailers for 9 other Delon titles - The Sicilian Clan, Borsalino and Co, Two Men in Town, Mort d'un Pourri, Trois Hommes a Abbatre, Pour la Peau d'un Flic, Le Battant, Parole de Flic and Ne Reveilles pas un Flic Qui Dort.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who's Cooler -- Alain Delon or Alain Delon?, August 30, 2008

By 

EddieLove "EddieLove" (NYC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flic Story (DVD)

Delon defines cool as a cop hunting down super-psycho gangster Trintignant in post-war Paris. You don't get the thrilling cinematic high of a Melville picture in this largely set-bound but colorful production, but it's fun and Delon is riveting. (JTL on the other hand, is such a humourless, dead-eyed, whack-job it's hard to see how he could come to lead a criminal gang that's this loyal to him.) The tense restaurant climax is terrific. (And note how the denouement resembles American Gangster.)