Starring:
Philippe Léotard
Annie Girardot
Jacques Penot
Christian Marquand
Juliette Binoche
PREMIERE - September '95
Fred (Philippe Léotard) is an actor without success. He is a player and a rogue but he is also a failure at everything, most of all at life itself. Never more so than since his young girlfriend B.B. (Juliette Binoche) finally broke with him for good, fed up with his constant let downs.
Fred is a gambler and has lost at all turns. He is now deep in debt. The only way to clear his dues is to take on a contract to kill a man. Detached from life Fred decides to do it and then disappear. Poupée (Amidou) sets it up and Fred is to carry out the hit in a theatre. But memories of B.B. and the arrival of Colette (Annie Girardot), a new woman in his life, complicate matters. She has a sad past and wants nothing more than to have a tranquil life with Fred, but events are in motion and options are running out for Fred.
Fred finds himself, gun in hand, in the theatre ready to shoot. Can he carry out the hit?
Adieu blaireau (Farewell to Fred) is a quintessential 80s ‘policier’ drenched in neon hues and set to an electronic jazz score. It premièred at the 1985 Cognac Festival du Film Policier and was Bob Decout’s debut film giving Juliette Binoche, in the supporting role of B.B., an opportunity to work with veterans Annie Girardot and Philippe Leotard.
Fred
Colette
Gégé
Victor
BB
Poupée
Boris
Professeur
Un tueur
Gigi
L'amateur de foot
La Grenouille
La fille bar Colette
Un baigneur
Fifi
Un sbire de Poupée
Philippe Léotard
Annie Girardot
Jacques Penot
Christian Marquand
Juliette Binoche
Amidou
Albert Dray
Yves Rénier
John Dobrynine
Agathe Gil
Emanuel Booz
Pierre Arditi
Catherine Albin
François Auger
Mehdi Babou
Pierre-Yves Burton
Harry Cleven
Directed by
Written by
Produced by
Original music by
Cinematography by
Film editing by
Production design by
Assistant unit manager
Sound
Stills photographer
Script supervisor
Produced by
Bob Decout
Bob Decout
Yannick Bernard
Meyer Berreby
Dominique Perrier
Serge Halsdorf
Sophie Bhaud
Jean-Bernard Bonis
Frédéric Astich-Barre
Edouard Dupont
Adrien Nataf
Laurent Denis
Chantal Pernecker
GA Films
Les Films Stanley
Odessa Films
TF1 Films Production
a film by Bob Decout
1985
The encounter with Philippe Léotard and Annie Girardot. Just for that, I was glad to make this film. I saw Léotard lying on a bed between takes, reciting Lautréamont, whom he knew by heart, sublimely beautiful.”
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"Mama" by Janet Wollacot
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