[Boogster]

36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)

An intelligently paced, taut, well acted thriller.

Predictably, Parisian Gendarmerie exposed as vicious old men with no scruples and unaccountably beautiful wives. It's French (and in subtitles) so there are gratuituous boobies on show, and moreover Gerard Depardieu is excellent in a carefully understated role as the seething cop with chequered past.

8/10