In Choice of Arms, Yves Montand heads an all-star cast, including Catherine Denueve and Gerard Depardieu, as a former crook pulled out of retirement.

Serie Noire adapts Jim Thompson's A Hell of A Woman to the banlieues of Paris. In an astonishing performance, Patrick Dewaere (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) attempts to save a young girl from prostitution, with murder the only solution.

Media

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Bonus Materials

• High-Definition digital transfer
• Interviews with Alain Corneau, Patrick Dewaere and Miriam Boyer from Belgian Television (1981, 11 mins)
• Série noire: The Darkness of the Soul - An archival documentary featuring cast and crew on the making of the film (2013, 50 mins)
• Archival interview with Alain Corneau and Marie Trintignant (2002, 29 mins)
• A Hollyhock in a Cornfield - A visual essay about Jim Thompson adaptations for the screen by Paul Martinovic (2024)

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       Patrick Dewaere
•       Myriam Boyer
•       Marie Trintignant
•       Bernard Blier

Director: Alain Corneau

Additional Details

Label: Radiance

Genre: Cult

Language: French

Run Time: 116 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 01/20/26

UPC: 760137199755