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'Belleville Cop' is a French police comedy film directed by Rachid Bouchareb and premiere-released in 2018. Leading actors are Omar Sy, Luis Guzmn and Franck Gastambide.

Film was presented at French Cinepanorama (Hong Kong French Film Festival) 2018, on three screens.

Plot



Born in Belleville (Paris neighbourhood), Sebastian Bouchard, known as "Baaba", became a police officer. He is determined to stay in Belleville, to the despair of his girlfriend wishing to live elsewhere. Baaba is struggling to get away from his slightly invasive mother.

One night in a restaurant, Roland, his childhood friend, is murdered before his eyes. Roland was a liaison officer at the Consulate General of France in Miami and was visiting Paris for an investigation into drug trafficking. Baaba then decides to go to Florida, taking with him his mother. In Miami, he is flanked by a jaded and irascible local cop, Ricardo Garcia. The two men will then be forced to work together despite everything that separates them.

Cast



Production



In 2011, Rachid Bouchareb announced his desire to make an "American trilogy" on relations between the United States and the "Arab world". The first of the three films should have been the buddy movie 'Belleville Cop', with Jamel Debbouze and Queen Latifah.[http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18601529.html allocine.fr] (production) The first finally became the TV movie 'Just like a Woman', road movie with Sienna Miller and Golshifteh Farahani, broadcast in 2012. It was followed by 'Two Men in Town', with Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel and Luis Guzmn.

Now third project was then renamed ' for France. The main roles are then taken over in 2017 by Omar Sy and Luis Guzmn.

For the writing of the screenplay, Bouchareb cites the 'Beverly Hills Cop' but also buddy movies like '48 Hrs.', 'Lethal Weapon' and 'L'emmerdeur'. He collaborated with one of the '48 Hrs.' writers, Larry Gross.

Shooting



The filming began in March 2017 in Paris, in the 20th arrondissement. It later continued in Miami and Los Angeles, as well as Bogota in Colombia.

Exhibition and box office



The film was released on 17 October 2018 on 550 screens. It only made 30,220 entries for its debut day despite a big promotion and the fact that Omar Sy is a leading actor. For the first week, it had only 248,868 entries. It finished theaters exhibition with 630,283 entries. It brought only $7M for a budget of $17M. After 'Knock', it's another commercial failure for Omar Sy.

Reception



On the French site Allocin, which lists 7 titles of press, the film obtained the average score of 2.0/5.

In 'Current Woman', Amlie Cordonnier describes the film "a nice detective comedy". In 'Le Parisien', Catherine Balle writes "the new feature film by Rachid Bouchareb, a comedy, is hard not to smile to and one gets lost in a fantastic scenario". For 'First', Pierre Lunn writes: "The new film by Rachid Bouchareb with Omar Sy is struggling to bring into existence the idea of a buddy cop movie in the French." Hlne Marzolf of 'Tlrama' wonders "what has happened to Rachid Bouchareb to make a film that" Americans would experience as "outrageous and not funny".

Soundtrack



Movie has 30 songs in its soundtrack album, some of which with folk note.

References




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