La Bête noire (1983)

• 64%
• 1983
• Drama
• Patrick Chaput
• Xavier Marchand
• Richard Bohringer
• Philippe Sfez

In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller set in part against the dark by-ways of Paris. Seventeen-year-old Daniel grew up in foster homes in a rural area and those years contrast with his later youth in Paris. A filmmaker opts to interview Daniel for a documentary on delinquency, and that is how the young man's past and precarious present start coming to light.