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1976 film directed by André Téchiné. This suspenseful tale of blackmail, deception and murder is about a girl (Isabelle Adjani) who is in love with a boxer named Samson (Gérard Depardieu). The film is a political thriller, about how the murky realm of politics infringes on ordinary people, not in the sense of laws and taxes, but literally, in terms of life and death. The film is set on the eve of an important election, which seems less like an open democratic contest than an underworld struggle for power. Samson is bribed to admit his abuse as a child by one of the candidates. Seeing the money as a possibility of escape for himself and his long-time unemployed fiancee Laure (Isabelle Adjani), he accepts, but under pressure from the other candidate, who gives him the same amount to keep quiet, he decides to escape with Laure to begin a new life. Before they meet at the train station, however, Samson is kidnapped by the first set of thugs and killed. The killer, also Gérard Depardieu, little by little, falls in love with Laure. 110 minutes, unrated.
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