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France, Luxembourg, Belgium · 2013
1h 46m
Director Serge Bozon
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, François Damiens, Karole Rocher
Genre Comedy, Thriller
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Farid, an Algerian turned informant for the French police, is found murdered in a small French town. Two offbeat and unethical female investigators are brought in to investigate the possibility of police involvement with the murder.
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
Serge Bozon's smart, surprising, marvelously realized French crime-and-sex police drama/comedy distinguishes itself with trenchant plotting, inspired framing, and performances that honor true human feeling even as they lunge into the screwball.
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
The humor of this situation — or of any of the movie’s strained wackiness — doesn’t particularly translate. It also does little to illuminate the more serious commentary on immigration, the legacy of colonialism and the tensions within the country’s Algerian communities.
There's so much thrown into Tip Top that nothing stands out.
Slant Magazine by Kenji Fujishima
Instead of finding one consistent tone and sticking to it, Serge Bozon allows the wildly hilarious and the grimly serious to uneasily coexist, exulting in the resultant clash.
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
Confirms director and co-screenwriter Serge Bozon as one of French cinema’s true oddballs.
An utterly brazen mix of screwball comedy, film noir and sharp social commentary that hits its own strange bullseye more often than not, Bozon’s third full-length feature (and first since 2007’s WWI musical, “La France”) benefits immeasurably from actors willing to go as far out on a limb as their intrepid director.
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
Shot in precisely composed frames, with recurring visual motifs and an eye-pleasing color palette that accentuates blue hues, Tip Top is commendably ambitious in its Godardian attempts to deconstruct the police thriller format, but it's only partially successful.
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