Kino Lorber will release on Blu-ray
Malfeasance: Four Films by Yves Boisset (1971-1982). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on March 31.
This collection features four films directed by thriller master Yves Boisset (The Cop, Dog Day).
ANGEL'S LEAP a.k.a. LE SAUT DE LANGE (1971)
You can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. An ex-gangster in Bangkok (Jean Yanne) leaps back to Marseille to exact revenge on his siblings' murderers. FBI man Sterling Hayden and femme fatale Senta Berger highlight this ultra-violent vendetta tale. Music by François de Roubaix (Le samouraï).
MAD ENOUGH TO KILL a.k.a. FOLLE A TUER (1975)
In this twisted thriller, a wealthy industrialist (Michael Lonsdale) hires a former psychiatric patient (Marlène Jobert) to look after his recently orphaned nephew. But the woman and the boy soon find themselves ensnared by a cold-blooded hit-man (Tomas Milian). Music by Philippe Sarde (Tess).
THE WOMAN COP a.k.a. LA FEMME FLIC (1980)
Miou-Miou is magnificent as Corinne Levasseur, a gritty city policewoman who is transferred to a small mining town where she battles sexism and a trail of corruption that leads to the town's most powerful family. Boisset based this intense depiction of "la femme flic" on actual events. Music by Philippe Sarde (Quest for fire).
RISE UP, SPY a.k.a. ESPION, LEVE-TOI (1982)
In a plum late-career role, Lino Ventura plays a sleeper agent in Switzerland who is activated after eight years of silence when the corpses start piling up. This paranoid pulse-pounder co-stars Michel Piccoli and Bruno Cremer. Music by Ennio Morricone (The Sicilain Clan).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 4K RESTORATIONS of Angel's Leap, Mad Enough to Kill and The Woman Cop
- 2K RESTORATION of Rise Up, Spy
- NEW Audio Commentary for ANGEL'S LEAP by mystery writer and filmmaker Max Allan Collins with film historian and Host of Cereal at Midnight Podcast Heath Holland
- NEW Audio Commentaries for MAN ENOUGH TO KILL and THE WOMAN COP by film fistorians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson
- NEW Audio Commentary for RISE UP, SPY by Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson
- Theatrical Trailer (Angel's Leap)
- In French with optional English Subtitles