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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its deadpan French comic machinery turns an ordinary man into the target of wildly disproportionate police-and-spy scheming, matching the brisk institutional satire and escalating farce of My New Partner.
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Why this pick
Another sharply paced Zidi comedy, built around a mismatched partnership, energetic physical business, and cheerful contempt for compromised authority and commercial fakery.
03
Why this pick
Its pleasure lies in watching an assured, ethically slippery man lose control as a tightly engineered evening spirals into disaster—an excellent fit for the cynical-but-playful comic escalation.
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Why this pick
For the irreverent 1970s French comic energy and rogue-buddy dynamic: it has the same appetite for rule-breaking characters, though its sexual humour is considerably more provocative.
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Why this pick
Its bone-dry absurdism and casually corrupt, deadpan encounters offer a darker companion to My New Partner, preserving the pleasure of watching institutions and morality become comic obstacles.
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01 / THE STORY
My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
François Lesbuche
Vidal
René Boirond
