Customer Reviews

Tendre Poulet [VHS]

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A very good production of a favorite French comedy (with sub-titles). An outstanding cast and a fun plot. A female French Chief Inspector of Police is much more interested in romantically pursuing a reluctant, liberal "anti- police" professor than solving a serial killing which occasionally interferes. Typical of "Pardon Mon Affaire" and "The Tall Blonde Man" era. What favorably impressed me about Amazon was that the original copy that I was sent was of rather poor quality. When I contacted the seller, despite some initial well intentioned confusion in which they kept offering a full refund if I so desired, they rapidly sent a replacement copy in excellent condition, at no charge.

Ph. Noiret has a voice like Morgan Freeman has one: music and distinction in it. Annie Girardot has a temper like Woopie Goldberg. If you like parisian streets, french humour... and tenderness.

This film is an investigative charming police comedy.It's a great international movie and a must see!!

This French film by de Broca defies description -- its simultaneously a taut mystery involving the murders of Members of Parliament, an hilarious comedy (including a fantastic take-off of police car chase scenes -- with a driver who doesn't know how to shift out of first gear!) and an absolutely delightful middle-aged romance between a mild-mannered bachelor professor of Greek (Philippe Noiret) and a hard-boiled divorced female police official investigating the murders (Annie Giradot) who re-meet years after their university days by accident (i.e., she hits him with her car while he is bicycling to work), with a good supporting cast (Guy Marchand and Catherine Alric only two of many) and set in the beautiful city of Paris (and with accurate sub-titles and fitting music). This is probably the only police murder procedural that qualifies as a "date film" guaranteed to leave a smile on the faces of all who see it.

I saw this movie in Oakland 28 years ago and loved it. I've been searching for a copy ever since. Thoroughly enjoyable...vastly superior to today's insipid farce.