Inspecteur Lavardin

1986 [FRENCH]

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 1767 1.8K

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Plot summary

Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.

Director

Claude Chabrol Photo
Claude Chabrol

Top cast

Bernadette Lafont Photo
Bernadette Lafont as Hélène Mons
Jean-Claude Brialy Photo
Jean-Claude Brialy as Claude Alvarez
Chantal Grebbet Photo
Chantal Grebbet as Eve
Philippe Froger Photo
Philippe Froger as Stage Manager
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923.18 MB
1204*720
French 2.0
Not Rated
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23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 3
1.67 GB
1792*1072
French 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 4 / 10

The sequel to the 1984 film Cop au

The sequel to the 1984 film Cop au Vin, Inspecteur Lavardin finds the detective (Jean Poiret) demoted to investigations in a small coastal town due to his investigation techniques involving dunking suspect's heads under water. This brings him into the case of a murdered Catholic writer named Raoul Mons, who has been found dead on the beach with the word pig written all over his back. It turns out that Raoul wasn't just a drug dealer, blackmailer and rapist, but also was married to Helene, an old flame that that Lavardin hasn't seen for twenty years. Even stranger, her daughter is named Véronique, the same name he'd always wanted to give to a daughter. And when the truth comes out, will the Inspector stay with his new family or just go home alone with his breakfast obsessions and the photo of a murderess in his wallet? Two years later, Poiret would return to this role for four episodes of the TV series Les dossiers secrets de l'inspecteur Lavardin, which was written by Chabrol, had two episodes directed by him and also featured his son Thomas.
Reviewed by Simon T 7 / 10

A worthy sequel to Chabrol's Cop Au Vin

A worthy sequel to Chabrol's Cop Au Vin, showcasing Jean Poiret's amused and forensic detective. The setting could be the same as the previous outing - a large country house in Dinard where a wealthy businessman becomes a murder victim, his naked body discovered on a nearby jetty. The usual Chabrol themes - family secrets and lies - are enjoyably played out with a layering of comedy, only undermined by the sometimes tortuous plotting.
Reviewed by CKB 7 / 10

Chabrol brings back the 'vinegary' Inspector Lavardin from

Chabrol brings back the 'vinegary' Inspector Lavardin from Cop au vin (aka Poulet au vinaigre) to put some more small town players through his particular style of acid bath, with plenty of wit and sparkle along the way. Everything's more personal this time around, for the widow of the murder victim he's investigating is an old flame who vanished from his life 20 yrs before (and who remains nicely mysterious to the very end). The theme here is professing morality vs doing what is truly right, so this time Lavardin refrains from his tough guy methods to get the truth, and employs some nice leverages to achieve his ends. Chabrol also invokes Sherlock Holmes, having Lavardin call his clueless policeman assistant 'Watson', making the widow appear to be Lavardin's version of Holmes' only love, Irene Adler, and requiring the inspector to make a Holmesian judgement call, putting the law's demands aside to protect the innocent. The camerawork is subtly exceptional, and Chabrol's son Matthieu provides a Les Six-style score that suits his father's work nicely.
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