Melody for a Hustler
104 mins
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
Roger Knobelspiess
Un flic
Vincent Ravalec
Novel
Jean-Pierre Alessandrini
Producer
Fred Lapierre
Production Design
Vincent Ravalec
Director
Robert Miny
Original Music Composer
Frédérique Lapierre
Production Design
Vincent Ravalec
Screenplay
Yvon Lemière
Editor
Jean-Pierre Maricourt
Special Effects