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Death of a rotten Raf Vallet: the grandpa of the neopolar is back

2021-12-15T15:16:04.166Z


Gallimard is reissuing two thrillers by Jean Laborde, alias Raf Vallet, the reading of which will rekindle nostalgia for the beloved 1970s era around the family table on the occasion of the holidays.


It wasn't that bad under Giscard.

And even under Pompidou.

Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Maurice Ronet, Miou-Miou and Lino Ventura shot in films adapted from noir novels written by the first triggers of the “Black Series”, named Raf Vallet, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Francis Ryck or Pierre Siniac.

It was Pierre Granier-Deferre, Robert Enrico or Claude Chabrol who held the camera.

And the dialogues were often signed by Michel Audiard, which in no way spoiled the comfort of the viewer in the armchairs of the cinemas on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

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The good Gallimard house republishes two detective novels whose reading will rekindle nostalgia for this time cherished around the family table on the occasion of the holidays.

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, a film by Georges Lautner based on a novel by Raf Vallet published in 1972, in the heyday of real estate Gaullism.

Advantage to those who will remember the impeccable phlegm of Alain Delon in ...

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Source: lefigaro

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