Green Room

- Quick Links > Le Petit Lieutenant > Nathalie Baye > The Green Room (1978) > Every Man for Himself (1979) > The Flower of Evil (2003) Since 1972 Nathalie Baye has been commanding the attention of cinema audiences around the world by demanding nothing of them. Nothing, that is, except that they watch and listen with the same intense yet gentle concentration she brings to every role. In director Xavier Beauvois’s latest film, Le Petit Lieutenant, Ms. Baye plays Inspector Caroline Vaudieu, a recovering alcoholic still grieving after many years over the death of a young son. When Antoine Derouere (Jalil Lespert), a lieutenant just graduated from the police academy, joins Vaudieu’s crime unit in Paris, she assumes the role of his mentor. A richly-textured relationship evolves between the two against the backdrop of a markedly unglamorous world inhabited by workaday cops. In Le Petit Lieutenant, Beauvois (who also wrote the screenplay with Guillame Breaud, Jean-Eric Troubat,

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