La Bête noire

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.

• Patrick ChaputDirector
• Patrick ChaputWriter
• Patrick YalaouiWriter
• Jean-Claude VannierOriginal Music Composer

• Xavier MarchandJacky
• Richard BohringerYves Boissieu
• Philippe SfezDaniel
• Sabine HaudepinKaren
• Georges GéretM. Guyot
• Jean BouisePépé
• Bernadette LafontAntonia
• Eddie ConstantineLe patron du bar américain
• Isabelle SadoyanMme Guyot
• Nini CréponRobert
• Catherine GandoisLa mère de Daniel
• Mireille PerrierSonia