| Title | La Balance (1982) |
| Runtime | 1 hr. 42 min. |
| Director | Bob Swaim |
| Country | France |
| Studio | Criterion Collection |
| Genres | Drama |
| Description | La Balance was a legitimate French attempt to reclaim the international crime film genre that the Americans had defined and dominated since the 1930s. With Hollywood-level (and style) violence and American-born (though French-based) filmmaker Bob Swaim in the director's chair, and a first-rate cast in a good, straight-forward crime story, it pushed all the right buttons with audiences on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid-1980s -- especially the incredibly suspenseful final quarter-hour. |