Police (1985 film)

Police is a 1985 French neo noir crime drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, and Sandrine Bonnaire.

Written by Catherine Breillat, the film is about a moody, jaded police detective investigating a drug ring who falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme.

[2] In the Belleville district of Paris, the widowed Mangin is a cynical and tough police detective working to smash a drug ring of Tunisian brothers.

When the remaining gang members put heavy pressure on Noria, who denies all knowledge of the theft, she offers herself to Mangin.

Richard Brody of The New Yorker magazine called the re-release of the film as "Astringently naturalistic drama.