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5.9/10
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A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.
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- TriviaClaude Chabrol said in an interview that the film is like a "novel that Georges Simenon never wrote", a kind of "Maigret on vacation".
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Paul Bellamy: On tue toujours pour ce débarrasser de quelque chose, mais la plus part des gens qui tue, c'est pour ce débarrasser d'eux-mêmes.
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Pleasant interlude with Chabrol, Depardieu, and Bunel
I suppose when I rate this movie more highly than many other people it's because I haven't had enough exposure to Claude Chabrol. For me this falls under the category "French movie," not "Chabrol movie." So those who are less discriminating may like the movie as much as my wife and I did.
European movies are better than American to the extent that they show ordinary people's lives lived at any ordinary pace. They're worse when they indulge in incomprehensible or surrealistic profundities. "Bellamy" teeters on the edge of the latter now and then, but gives us many pleasures of the first kind. It's a murder mystery, sort of, but more of the "what happened?" than the "who did it?" variety. In addition, it's a view into the life of Inspector Bellamy and the people in his life. His relationship with his wife is simple but enviable (perhaps improbably so). Marie Bunel is perfect as the wife.
The film does have some irritating attempts at profundity, but they are not too distracting. It's more distracting wondering how Gerard Depardieu, the Inspector, can have a brother played by an actor 20 years younger that he supposedly grew up with.
European movies are better than American to the extent that they show ordinary people's lives lived at any ordinary pace. They're worse when they indulge in incomprehensible or surrealistic profundities. "Bellamy" teeters on the edge of the latter now and then, but gives us many pleasures of the first kind. It's a murder mystery, sort of, but more of the "what happened?" than the "who did it?" variety. In addition, it's a view into the life of Inspector Bellamy and the people in his life. His relationship with his wife is simple but enviable (perhaps improbably so). Marie Bunel is perfect as the wife.
The film does have some irritating attempts at profundity, but they are not too distracting. It's more distracting wondering how Gerard Depardieu, the Inspector, can have a brother played by an actor 20 years younger that he supposedly grew up with.
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- Nov 26, 2010
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- Bellamy
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- Gross US & Canada
- $107,612
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $20,635
- Oct 31, 2010
- Gross worldwide
- $3,699,770
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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