Inspector Bellamy

Two giants of French cinema, director Claude Chabrol and actor Gerard Depardieu, team up for the first and last time. Charbrol’s final picture was written for Depardieu, and the great actor (Cyrano de Bergerac) perfectly captures the sly role of Inspector Bellamy, an homage to George Simenon’s Maigret. More character study than whodunit, elegantly filmed and moody, “here is a movie about a cop and a crime in which not one shot is fired”—Roger Ebert. 1¾ hrs, 1 DVD, French with English subtitles, SDH.

 

“Here is a movie about a cop and a crime in which not one shot is fired” – Roger Ebert