Product Details

• Actors: Albert Simono, Grace De Capitani, Régine, Claude Brosset, Philippe Noiret
• Directors: Claude Zidi
• Format: Color, Full Screen, Import
• Language: French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00062U5X4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,217 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic film, erroneous description of product., October 7, 2009

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This review is from: Les ripoux (Philippe Noiret - Thierry Lhermitte) (French version) (DVD)

I love this film and have been trying to get a subtitled version of it for twenty years. So imagine my excitement when I saw this on Amazon. Yes the description above clearly says English.

Wrong, it has no subtitles whatsoever, not even French ones. I bought this and ended up downloading subtitles off the internet and inserting them myself to finally be able to watch it.

Don't waste your money, wait for Criterion or whoever to put out a subtitled version of this woefully neglected little gem.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie, BUT ..., December 29, 2006

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Daniel J. Danner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Les Ripoux (Original French Version- No English Options) (DVD)

Updated December 30, 2011.

When I purchased this DVD in 2006, it had no subtitles, and it would not play in Region 1 (North America) - it was formatted to play only on Region 2 DVD players (Europe and the Middle East). The product description didn't say any of that, and that was probably the most useful part of my review. Now the description does say that it has no English subtitles, and it says that it is formatted for Region 1 players, but I'm wondering about that last part - maybe they actually did change the product to Region 1, since the reviewer "film fan" was able to manually add subtitles to it.

I haven't seen the movie since 1993 (because I can't find a version with English subtitles), but here's what I remember of the plot. There is an older, well-seasoned police detective in a major French city, and he is assigned a younger, rookie detective as a new partner. The senior detective makes extra money by taking small bribes, etc., and the young detective doesn't like this approach to policing, so it gets interesting. Even the simplest conversations are very funny.

From what I remember the movie was hilarious, and I liked it so much that I watched it twice in two days, and I don't think I've ever done that with any other movie.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars French Filmaking Brilliance, June 29, 2005

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M. Adams "The Count" (Mount Martha, Vic. Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Les Ripoux (Original French Version) (VHS Tape)

Les Ripoux, My New Partner is one of those movies that both make you feel wonderful inside and make you laugh aloud. This is one of those rare movies where you find yourself hitting the review button on your video so you can laugh again. Phillipe Noiret is at his comedic best in this film.

If your looking for a foreign film that you will just love, this is it.