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Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona fro...
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"There is in this movie one of the best scenes ever to be seen on. Deweare is outside on a parking place, in the night in the city. He shouts etc. About love. I don't remember exactly what he says, but the sadness, lostness, despair and loneliness in the city that he is expressing, the image this scene is offering has been one of my main inspirations for my artwork. This movie makes me really cry, so much it touched me in my heart. It is like a religious experience, this image of estrangement in modern lost times in the city...."
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Shortly before Alain Corneau made Serie Noir, Orson Welles and cinematographer Gary Graver started work on a treatment of the same Jim Thompson source novel, A Hell of a Woman. It was titled Dead Giveaway and was to star Bud Cort, Jocelyn Brando, and Welles himself. Like most Welles projects, it never made it to fruition.
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Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona fro...