a a cop this actor be pathetic but fascinate . a serial killer be at work in new york and use poetic ad in the village voice to attract his prey . but in fact he be not the killer really but the real prey of the killer who be the woman and at first they think and the police and and they be wrong of course . so our cop dress up a bar waiter and poetic lover and they start date woman in a bar via some nice poem in the village voice . of course in the lot they manage to catch the good one and but in the meantime our cop have fall in love with her and he be unable to see straight . he be so shocked when he discover she be connect with the victim that he stop think and he want her to commit one more crime and he frighten her to death and she leave . it be then someone ring at the door and what a surprise and a colleague of his and a cop and you go and discover the detail . sordid and bleak and miserable and and that sea of love be just spill over and a real tsunami . the actor be so good that he make u believe two thing . for one cop have special eye and anyone can recognize them by the way they look at you or anything . and for two that a cop in love be like a whale out of the sea and dying because he be crush by his own weight and that of his gun and badge and and crush everything around himself like the big fat monster he be . one of these actor of the old generation who be and and some of them still be and have teach the trade to a few young one and able to impersonate any part and any role and any situation a if they be chameleon . that rare and my gosh and that rare but so good when you meet one from time to time . that thriller be the expert plus a good touch of humane and human depth . let hope competition and the crisis help hollywood to ask their actor to relearn that trade of old and begin again compose their character from inside and not a if they be some kind of costume you don over your even jacket or dress . dr jacques coulardeau and university paris 1 pantheon sorbonne and university paris 12 créteil and cegid .