Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Georges Wilson

Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to set up a sting on a group of p...( read more  read more... )etty thieves (led by an old acquaintance). A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Max starts spending evenings with Lilly, a prostitute who's the girlfriend of the group's leader. He poses as a rich banker with money to burn and encourages Lilly to think about her future. He hints at a payroll that comes through his bank. The plot works, the petty thieves think they're ready for a big score, and the cops are in place. What could go wrong with Max's cold plan? Who's entrapped?

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Unrated, 112 min.

Directed by: Claude Sautet

Release Date: February 1, 1971

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  • May 13, 2009
    Claude Sautet is mainly known for Film Noirs in his early career (Classe tous risque) and the more human dramas he became associated with from the late sixties onwards (Les Choses de la Vie). Max et les Ferrailleurs mixes the crime elements of Sautet's Noirs with his later works,...( read more) and creates an above average and mostly enjoyable film.
    The story itself takes awhile to get going, the first 30 minutes is basically setting up the story and could come from any routine crime film of the seventies. Once Romy Schneider enters the picture however things start to pick up. Schneider and Piccoli really play off each other well, and as another review here says the best scenes in the film are the ones where they are simply sitting having conversations together. All this leads up to a nice little twist at the end.
    Worth watching if you can come across it.

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  • January 25, 2009
    I liked it for most of the time, except for the storyline which seemed just to mercilessly straightforward to me and the final twist which came about just too unmotivated and thus shattered the credibility of the main character. But I liked the conversations between the detective...( read more) and the prostitute and I particularly enjoyed observing the prostitute's reaction when she finds out that what she is actually being paid for is playing cards...

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