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The Young Lieutenant
Directed by
Xavier Beauvois
Not Rated
2005
1h 50m
Drama
,
Crime
6.9
78%
64%
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A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
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Cast of The Young Lieutenant
Nathalie Baye
Commandant Vaudieu
Jalil Lespert
Antoine Derouère
Roschdy Zem
Solo
Antoine Chappey
Louis Mallet
Jacques Perrin
Le juge Serge Clermont
Xavier Beauvois
Nicolas Morbé
Patrick Chauvel
Le lieutenant Patrick Belval
Jean-Charles Dumay
Juge d'instruction
Bérangère Allaux
Julie Derouère, la femme d'Antoine
Wieslaw Puzio
Kaminsky
Rémy Roubakha
Marchand
Jean Lespert
M. Derouère, le père d'Antoine
Annick Le Goff
Mme Derouère, la mère d'Antoine
Bruce Myers
L'Anglais
Mireille Franchino
Mireille, la logeuse
Olivier Schneider
Pavel Dimitrov
Yaniss Lespert
Alex Derouère, le frère d'Antoine
Philippe Lecompt
Armurier
Christophe Jannin
Richard
Jérôme Bertin
Alain
Pierre Aussedat
Commissaire
Alex Agnostopoulos
Hervé
Riton Liebman
Jean
Mélanie Leray
Femme de Solo
Arthur Smykiewicz
Andrzej Walesa
Luc Minouflet
Skelettor
Elie Dasan
Piotr Panfilev
Guiorgui Messaryguine
L'interprète
Oleg Kasian
Anton Doudalev
Caroline Champetier
Femme dans le train
Isabelle Tillou
Pharmacienne
Alain Naron
Le gardien du premier foyer
The Young Lieutenant Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
...More than any film in recent memory, Le Petit Lieutenant conveys the relentless toll of big-city police work.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Le Petit Lieutenant looks at Antoine's life with lyricism.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Just as the French may overrate our cinema (Jerry Lewis, anyone?), we may overrate theirs. Take Le Petit Lieutenant -- please.
Boston Globe
Leighton Walter Kille
... you can sense Baye's struggling within the limits imposed on her.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The film's plot, revolving around a murder investigation that turns nasty, ticks along smoothly and efficiently. But it's ultimately more of a character drama, and a reminder that great acting often has little to do with words.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Beauvois makes the milieu his own, too, showing us credible and affecting human beings caught up in a world that often reveals humanity at its worst.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Le Petit Lieutenant, keeps such a lazy pace, with so many scenes that fail to move the story forward, that it should be cited for failing to meet the minimum speed for a crime drama.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The relationship between an enthusiastic young Paris homicide detective and his middle-age female supervisor is as important as the murders they are trying to solve in Xavier Beauvois' taut police procedural.
Newsday
John Anderson
The results, while a bit overlong, are engaging and real.
AV Club
Amelie Gillette
Le Petit Lieutenant spends too much time laying the groundwork for a story that could be told more succinctly, but Beauvois works hard to establish office chemistry and orient Lespert to his new surroundings.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Le Petit Lieutenant spends too much time laying the groundwork for a story that could be told more succinctly, but Beauvois works hard to establish office chemistry and orient Lespert to his new surroundings.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A quiet powerhouse of a film, an implacable, uncompromising French police drama, both old-fashioned and modern, that underlines the reasons impeccably made crime stories do so well on screen.
Associated Press
David Germain
A quiet powerhouse of a film, an implacable, uncompromising French police drama, both old-fashioned and modern, that underlines the reasons impeccably made crime stories do so well on-screen.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Le Petit Lieutenant shows how good French movies can be when they stay French and don't try to go international.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The movie's realism is unimpeachable, though American cops might be stunned by the idea of a half-dozen detectives being assigned to the murder of an anonymous floater.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
[Xavier Beauvois] is a clean and sure director, with a good selective eye: he knows where we ought to be looking at any moment. We can hope for more Beauvois films with worlds of their own.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Xavier Beauvois' police procedural owes more to Prime Suspect and Hill Street Blues than it does to any film genre. And it's all the better for it, if you can withstand the glacial pace and loving attention to the smallest details.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
When the action finally picks up in the pursuit of a ruthless Russian gang of killers, the relationship between Caroline and Antoine is delivered a devastating emotional wallop.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Le Petit Lieutenant is a flinty, almost hardhearted work about characters who have lost almost everything in pursuit of some undefinable abstraction, like honor or their country or doing the right thing.
New York Magazine/Vulture
... a bit too underplayed for its own good.
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