Word: dears
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...heard from de Broca in the past few years; the man who brought us King of Hearts and, once upon a time, That Man from Rio, seemed to have disappeared. Well, de Broca fans can rest assured that their man is alive and fairly well, as his latest film, Dear Inspector, demonstrates...
...Dear Inspector (formerly titled Dear Detective, but the name was changed when it became apparent that it would be released in America at about the same time as The Cheap Detective typifies in many ways the elements of style and wit that have made de Broca a perennial favorite in more places than just Cambridge. It is the rather silly, but nonetheless pleasant, story of a high-ranking Parisian police inspector who just happens to be a woman. Funny thing, that--it appears the protagonist of almost every new film nowadays has to be female. While there is surely nothing...
...Dear Inspector revolves around two plot strands, which interweave effectively until the end of the film. The first involves a big mystery case that is assigned, of course, to Lise. Someone, it seems, has fallen into the rather distasteful practice of murdering members of the National Assembly in crowded places--and with an awl, no less. Lise and her squadron of affectionate detectives must find and stop this madman while Paris reverberates with the crimes...
...Dear Inspector moves on. The mystery, while definitely the secondary plot element, becomes more interesting. The film is certainly helped along by the presence of the achingly beautiful Catherine Alric, who dimwittedly plays the central figure in the unraveling story: as the mistress of at least two of the victims and one police inspector who is assigned to the case after Lise is temporarily taken off it. In the end, though, the mystery dissolves into silliness--save for one scene suffused with skillful tension in an abandoned factory housing both murder weapons, murderer and a body. Here, de Broca displays...
Orson Welles Cinema I - 1101 Mass Ave. Dear Inspector...