Parole de flic (1985)

Parole de flic

A policeman who resigned ten years earlier and went to live in Africa comes back to Lyon when his daughter is shot dead, works the case outside the law, and finds that the man directing her killers is the friend inside the force who asked a young inspector to keep watch on him. (IMDb) José Pinheiro directs; Alain Delon produced the film with Jacques Bar, wrote the adaptation with Frédéric H. Fajardie and Pinheiro over Philippe Setbon's original screenplay, and stars as Daniel Pratt opposite Jacques Perrin as Commissioner Stéphane Reiner and Fiona Gélin as Inspector Sabine Clément, with Vincent Lindon early in his career as the gang member Dax. Shot in Lyon and in the People's Republic of the Congo and released in France on 21 August 1985, it took 2,517,875 admissions and outsold that year's Bond, A View to a Kill (1985); Delon also sings the closing song, "I Don't Know," with Phyllis Nelson.

Watches

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak

Worn by Alain Delon as Daniel Pratt. Delon wears his own steel Royal Oak Jumbo again as Pratt, the middle of the three films that carry the same personal watch, between Comme un boomerang nine years earlier and Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort three years later, the second of which Pinheiro also directed. (Revolution Watch, Luxuo) Putting an integrated-bracelet steel sports watch on a French policeman in 1985 was not the neutral choice it now reads as; the Royal Oak was still a provocation, and Delon was wearing his own rather than a costume-department loan. Cornette de Saint-Cyr auctioned the piece from his collection in April 2012 for a record €68,750 against a €2,500-3,000 estimate, to a Chinese buyer, in a 100-watch sale that made €443,875 in all; the example lacks the AP-logo dial variant that later Jumbos carry. (Monochrome, Haute Time)

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