NITRATE #08: POLAR 80

380 PAGES / 148x210 / COLOR

Thierry Lhermitte as boss of an SM box?
Richard Berry inventing the Internet using a Coca-Cola vending machine and a typewriter?
Gérard Lanvin hunting punks in the streets of Paris?
Daniel Auteuil in the midst of a terrible gang war ravaging the capital?
Francis Huster on a crusade to import the hamburger?
You asked for the POLAR80 – Don’t quit.

From the end of the 70s to the beginning of the 90s, the Belmondo/Delon model was running out of steam, and all the actors and actresses in France were, with or without conviction, taking a necessary path: the "police" box. Alongside comedy, the thriller was definitely the most prolific genre of the time, and producers were having a field day with it. Within this immense collection of 300 noir or gray films, fully chronicled in this book: successes, failures, laughter, tears, but above all, a wonderful mirror of the 80s, with all its pomp, its cops, and its crimes.
And to top it all off: interviews with Jean-François Balmer, François Guérif, Bob Swaim, Thierry Lhermitte, Fanny Bastien, Alexandre Arcady and others.

THE AUTHOR : A journalist passionate about music and cinema, born in 1986, Rod Glacial is also a DJ at FRANCE80 and curator of the Vimeo channel CLUB80 – POLAR80 is his first book and the culmination of his obsession with this decade, of which little-known aspects are often overlooked; here, a unique cinema, rocked by eventful current events, populated by crazy faces and nourished by unhealthy fantasies of America.