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Tip Top

2013 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 21% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 714 714

Plot summary

Two policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, the other eyes, tip top.

Director

Serge Bozon Photo
Serge Bozon

Top cast

Isabelle Huppert Photo
Isabelle Huppert as Esther Lafarge
Samy Naceri Photo
Samy Naceri as Gérald
Brahim Waabach Photo
Brahim Waabach as Ahmed
Saïda Bekkouche Photo
Saïda Bekkouche as Rachida Belkacem
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976.96 MB
1204*720
French 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
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1.96 GB
1792*1072
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lor_

Comedy is not pretty

Yes, Steve Martin is correct, and especially so when the folks try way too hard. Sure it is appealing, on paper at least, to watch such talented actresses as Huppert and Kiberlain do physical comedy shtick and exaggerated takes, but this sloppy mixture of police procedural, slapstick and social "awareness" (with its heavy emphasis on the always timely France/Algeria connection theme and ethnic diaspora in France) is awful.Main subtext for laughs is exploiting the funny aspect of kinky sex, which director Serge Bozon uses as a crutch for laughs much the same way a desperate (though immensely more successful) auteur like Mel Brooks resorts to fart jokes and other bathroom humor in a pinch. The sight gag of Isabelle Huppert loving the blood dripping from her injured nose on onto her tongue is milked (it would have been funny if just done once) and the whole BDSM material is thoroughly incompetent. I would have been amused had the great Bulle Ogier, who in the golden age of the '70s competed with Huppert for juicy screen roles, been cast instead, given her landmark work in Barbet Schroeder's "Maitresse".So I write this loser off as merely a Gallic entry in the burgeoning genre I call the Cinema of Facetiousness - a tongue-in-cheek approach to the medium that has given us thousands of terrible films by untalented (though lauded, don't ask me why) practitioners ranging from Tarantino to the Coens. My theory is that the distancing effect of making fun of everything, including one's own work, is a crutch that incompetents rely upon to shield themselves from criticism -you know, "I was only kidding" as the constant copout. So Quentin and his legion of idiots will never be taken seriously or suffer the serious analysis & critique afforded the Cinema giants on the order of Renoir, Clair, Bergman, Antonioni, Satyajit Ray and Mizoguchi.
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