My New Partner

1984 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 5482 5.5K

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Plot summary

A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...

Director

Claude Zidi Photo
Claude Zidi

Top cast

Thierry Lhermitte Photo
Thierry Lhermitte as François Lesbuche
Philippe Noiret Photo
Philippe Noiret as René Boirond
Grace de Capitani Photo
Grace de Capitani as Natasha
Nicholas Hawtrey Photo
Nicholas Hawtrey as Spencer
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980.23 MB
1194*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds ...
1.78 GB
1792*1080
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by soullimbo 8 / 10

The not-so-pretty side of Paris , done brilliantly !

No sign of the Louvres, the Champs-Elysees , the Eifel tower , the 'bateau-mouche' on the Seine , the Arc de Triomphe or any of the usual sights that one would normally associate with the city of romance in this movie. The one exception is perhaps a blurry view of Sacre- coeur in the background , albeit very briefly.Instead , we're treated with a perhaps over-realistic version of this beloved city , with an extremely 'bent' policeman (Noiret) who is given the clean country boy (Lhermitte) as a new partner. The comedy stems from Lhermitte's transformation from an " Elliot Ness" type of honesty , to eventually become more dishonest than Noiret himself. Incidentally , the term 'ripoux' stems from a french type of slang , whereby the syllables in a word are phonetically reversed , so in this instance , ripoux = pouris , which means 'rotten' or 'garbage' . A great little movie which spawned 2 sequels ( of inferior quality , but let's be honest, sequels usually are ).
Reviewed by haverpopper4 8 / 10

Great fun!

What a great movie! All around good fun -- I'd recommend it to anyone. The lead actors were awesome -- does anyone else think the guy playing Francois looks like a French Baldwin brother? Anyways, the story of two crooked cops hasn't aged at all. Hard to believe this one's not on VHS or DVD yet. See it if you can.
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