Série noire is a movie directed by Alain Corneau in 1979 and based on the book A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson, first published in 1954. The movie features Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant, Bernard Blier, Jeanne Herviale, Andreas Katsulas, and others.
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Storyline
Franck Poupart is a door-to-door salesman. His wife leaves him when he knocks her into a bathtub filled with water after she refuses to make him dinner. Then he gets imprisoned for embezzlement. Mona, an underage prostitute he meets early in the film, bails him out and persuades him to rob her rich aunt.
Movie vs Book
Year
1979
Minutes
111
Movie Rate
7.60
Source: IMDb
Movie
Série noire
Director: Alain Corneau
Country: France
Year: 1979
Length: 1h51m
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Year
1954
Pages
208
Book Rate
7.92
S: Goodreads
Book
A Hell of a Woman
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