Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
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Goupi mains rouges
Synopsis
In a rural French village, the close-knit Goupi family is thrown into disarray when the matriarch of the clan is found murdered on the very night that a young relative, all but a stranger to them, arrives from Paris. Slowly, the family’s dark secrets begin to come to the surface.
Synopsis
In a rural French village, the close-knit Goupi family is thrown into disarray when the matriarch of the clan is found murdered on the very night that a young relative, all but a stranger to them, arrives from Paris. Slowly, the family’s dark secrets begin to come to the surface.
Our take
Mixing an eccentric family story with a murder mystery, this rich, satirical noir is one of Jacques Becker’s defining early works. Deliberately defying categorisation, Goupi Red Hands moves effortlessly between genres, combining realist observations with comedy, melodrama, and suspense.