Polar

Polar

97 mins | Crime, Thriller | March 21, 1984

This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder of her roommate, a porno star. Soon Tarpon is up to his neck in trouble: the police, gangsters, and the victim's lover are all out to get him.

Polar

97 mins | Crime, Thriller | March 21, 1984

Polar
This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder of her roommate, a porno star. Soon Tarpon is up to his neck in trouble: the police, gangsters, and the victim's lover are all out to get him.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers France 3, Les Films Noirs
Original title Polar
Directors Jacques Bral
Writers Jean-Patrick Manchette, Jacques Bral

Cast

Jean-François Balmer

as Eugène Tarpon

Sandra Montaigu

as Charlotte Le Dantex

Pierre Santini

as Coccioli

Roland Dubillard

as Jean-Baptiste Haymann

Claude Chabrol

as Théodore Lyssenko