Barocco

Andre Techine's

Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani star in this suspenseful noir tale of blackmail, deception and murder. A young woman (Adani) convinces her ex-prizefighter boyfriend to accept a bribe to tell a lie that discredits a local politician. When he is murdered, she is racked with guilt until she meets the killer (Depardieu) - a dead-ringer for the murdered man.

The murderer is now in hiding from his former employees (who want to kill him too) and the police. He accepts the woman's need to "reinvent" him as her dead boyfriend-literally transforming his identity. But can love transform his soul as well?

Acclaimed director Techine (Alice Et Martin, My Favorite Season, Wild Reeds) infuses the classic elements of film noir with a daring moral dimension, breaking the shallow boundaries that restrain the multitude of lesser contemporary homage’s to the genre.