Le petit lieutenant

Koch Lorber Films | Release Date: September 8, 2006

7.9	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Ratings

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ChadS.May 10, 2007

When Caroline(Nathalie Baye) asks Antoine(Jalil Lespert) why he became a cop, the young lieutenant cites the movies as an influence. "Le Petit Lieutenant" isn't "In the Heat of the Night", this crime-drama won't be luring any young When Caroline(Nathalie Baye) asks Antoine(Jalil Lespert) why he became a cop, the young lieutenant cites the movies as an influence. "Le Petit Lieutenant" isn't "In the Heat of the Night", this crime-drama won't be luring any young impressionable kids to the force, not with its depictions of office work and tedious interviews with an uncolorful assortment of witnessess. As Antoine drives around Paris for the first time in a cop car, he simulates the high-speed chases of his movie-going days to get out of traffic. In doing so, he makes the audience aware that "Le Petit Lieutenant" is attempting something atypical of the police procedural genre; which is, that on most days, being a policeman can be a pretty unremarkable job. For most of its running time, the only time a gun gets fired is at a shooting range. "La Petit Lieutenant" deepens considerably when Caroline overtakes Antoine as the film's protagonist. We're unsure if she sees her subordinate as a surrogate son, or a potential lover. This enigma makes her face an interesting mask to study.… Expand