Le renard jaune

2013
1h 24m

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The author Charles Senac is hated by the regulars of the bar "le Renard jaune", whom he regularly insults. One morning he is found dead at home and Inspector Giraud is on the case.The author Charles Senac is hated by the regulars of the bar "le Renard jaune", whom he regularly insults. One morning he is found dead at home and Inspector Giraud is on the case.The author Charles Senac is hated by the regulars of the bar "le Renard jaune", whom he regularly insults. One morning he is found dead at home and Inspector Giraud is on the case.

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6/10

Scenes in a French café.

A special case in French cinema ,Jean-Pierre Mocky made lots and lots of movie, without any real commercial success .He had a tendency to botch the job, embedding his good ideas in a trove of bad ones ,thus making frequently spotty works.

"Le renard jaune" (the yellow fox) is a curate's egg , like most of the director's filmography ; although using the wide screen , it's a low-budget movie,in spite of the stellar cast :almost all the scenes take place in "the yellow fox" a café where habitués meet ;on of them ,a writer, is slain ,and all the regulars become suspects .

Let's accentuate the positive ;the scenes in the morgue are excellent black humor: the place is run by an old lady with a singsong voice who asks you to sign before you see the corpse because ,should you faint after identifying it,you wouldn't be able to do it ; the abstract painting is a good trick ; so is Mickael Lonsdale 's time bomb and his final pious line hits home too .