Belleville Cop

Belleville Cop (French: Le Flic de Belleville) is a French police comedy film directed by Rachid Bouchareb[2] and premiere-released in 2018. Leading actors are Omar Sy, Luis Guzmán and Franck Gastambide.

Belleville Cop
Original-release poster
Le Flic de Belleville
Directed byRachid Bouchareb
Produced byAllen Bain
Jean Bréhat
Samuel Hadida
Victor Hadida
Louise Lovegrove
Muriel Merlin
Claudia Roca Bravo
Written byRachid Bouchareb
Marion Doussot
Larry Gross
StarringOmar Sy
Luis Guzmán
Franck Gastambide
Biyouna
Music byÉric Neveux
Production
company
Tessalit Productions
Distributed byBig Bang Media
Release date
  • 17 October 2018 (2018-10-17)
[1]
Running time
111 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench, English
Budget$17M
Box office$7,431,345

Film was presented at French Cinepanorama (Hong Kong French Film Festival) 2018, on three screens.[3]

Plot

Born in Belleville (Paris neighbourhood), Sebastian Bouchard, known as "Baaba", became a police officer. He is determined to stay in Belleville, to the despair of his girlfriend wishing to live elsewhere. Baaba is struggling to get away from his slightly invasive mother.

One night in a restaurant, Roland, his childhood friend, is murdered before his eyes. Roland was a liaison officer at the Consulate General of France in Miami and was visiting Paris for an investigation into drug trafficking. Baaba then decides to go to Florida, taking with him his mother. In Miami, he is flanked by a jaded and irascible local cop, Ricardo Garcia. The two men will then be forced to work together despite everything that separates them.[4]

Cast
  • Omar Sy – Sébastian Bouchard aka "Baaba Keita"
  • Luis Guzmán – Lieutenant Ricardo Garcia
  • Biyouna – Zohra, the mother of Baaba
  • Diem Nguyen – Lin
  • Ériq Ebouaney – Ladji Toure
  • Isaka Sawadogo – Aboulaye
  • Maïouna Gueye – Iman Toure
  • Julie Ferrier – the consule
  • Franck Gastambide – Roland
  • Mike Benitez – Captain Mendez
  • Astrid Bayiha – the press officer
  • Christopher Journet – Patrice Boyer
  • Matthew Chizever – Sergeant Morris

Production

In 2011, Rachid Bouchareb announced his desire to make an "American trilogy" on relations between the United States and the "Arab world". The first of the three films should have been the buddy movie Belleville Cop, with Jamel Debbouze and Queen Latifah.[5] The first finally became the TV movie Just like a Woman, road movie with Sienna Miller and Golshifteh Farahani, broadcast in 2012. It was followed by Two Men in Town, with Forest Whitaker, Harvey Keitel and Luis Guzmán.

Now third project was then renamed Le Cop de Belleville for France. The main roles are then taken over in 2017 by Omar Sy and Luis Guzmán.[4]

For the writing of the screenplay, Bouchareb cites the Beverly Hills Cop but also buddy movies like 48 Hrs., Lethal Weapon and L'emmerdeur. He collaborated with one of the 48 Hrs.' writers, Larry Gross.[6]

Shooting
Rue de Belleville

The filming began in March 2017 in Paris, in the 20th arrondissement.[7] It later continued in Miami and Los Angeles, as well as Bogota in Colombia.[8][4]

Exhibition and box office

The film was released on 17 October 2018 on 550 screens. It only made 30,220 entries for its debut day despite a big promotion and the fact that Omar Sy is a leading actor. For the first week, it had only 248,868 entries. It finished theaters exhibition with 630,283 entries. It brought only $7M for a budget of $17M.[9] After Knock, it's another commercial failure for Omar Sy.

Reception

On the French site Allociné, which lists 7 titles of press, the film obtained the average score of 2.0/5.[10]

In Current Woman, Amélie Cordonnier describes the film "a nice detective comedy". In Le Parisien, Catherine Balle writes "the new feature film by Rachid Bouchareb, a comedy, is hard not to smile to and one gets lost in a fantastic scenario". For First, Pierre Lunn writes: "The new film by Rachid Bouchareb with Omar Sy is struggling to bring into existence the idea of a buddy cop movie in the French." Hélène Marzolf of Télérama wonders "what has happened to Rachid Bouchareb to make a film that" Americans would experience as "outrageous and not funny".[10]

Soundtrack

Movie has 30 songs[11] in its soundtrack album, some of which with folk note.

References
  1. imdb.com (release)
  2. Kay, Jeremy (18 May 2017). "Omar Sy action comedy 'Belleville Cop' joins Lionsgate slate". screendaily.com. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  3. "Belleville Cop | French Film Festival". 27 October 2018. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  4. Baronnet, Brigitte (25 July 2017). "Omar Sy sera Le Flic de Belleville". AlloCiné. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  5. allocine.fr (production)
  6. Formica, Vincent (17 October 2018). "Rachid Bouchareb : "Le Flic de Belleville est l'enfant de 48 heures, L'Arme Fatale et L'Emmerdeur"". AlloCiné. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  7. Picard, Claire (30 March 2017). "Exclu : Omar Sy en plein tournage à Paris du Flic de Belleville (PHOTOS)". www.programme-tv.net (in French). Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  8. Belleville Cop (2018) - IMDb, retrieved 30 May 2020
  9. "Le Flic de Belleville (2018) - JPBox-Office". jpbox-office.com. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  10. AlloCine, Le Flic de Belleville: Les critiques presse, retrieved 30 May 2020
  11. "Belleville Cop Soundtrack, a playlist by BERGSTEIGER on Spotify". Spotify. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
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