Word: girardot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deep, French film about a female detective, a big-ass murder case, and an incipient love affair. Philippe de Broca's first film in a long while is rather pleasing, even if the mystery suffers some for the sake of the romantic comedy. Philippe Noiret and Annie Girardot make a good pair. A little thin...
...woman. Funny thing, that--it appears the protagonist of almost every new film nowadays has to be female. While there is surely nothing wrong with that, the sudden shift away from the predominance of male leads a few years ago is somewhat surprising [see below]. At any rate, Annie Girardot plays Inspector Lise Tanquerelle with an undeniable charm and self-assurance. She is something of a superwoman, what with a successful career in a male-dominated world, a child (she is, bien sur, divorced), and a beautiful home in the suburbs. Not to mention the fact that she is inordinately...
...real problem here is, do women want to model themselves after Jill Clayburgh in Unmarried Woman, Jane Fonda in Coming Home, or Annie Girardot in Dear Inspector...
...someone who's paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life? And Clayburgh, although she does go through a deep, soul-searching experience with a fashionable, female, Manhattan shrink after her husband leaves her, really doesn't find happiness until she finds Alan Bates. And Annie Girardot, who fits neither of these categories, instead idiotically bounces back, and forth between career, children, and lover, in that order, making not much sense...
...whatever the French equivalent of the silver screen is called, prefer to adopt a new male for women to turn to, rather than a new woman who has something of their own to offer. Fonda and Clayburgh are really in search of new men, not new lives. And Girardot is so charmingly obsessed with her career that it is difficult to see her as anything but a female detective. They are all uninspiring people, leaving you sitting in your seat, as the lights come back on, feeling depressed and ashamed. You long for Laren Bacall's cool, (oh, so cool...