Flic is a French slang term for which type of official?
Un flic Un flic Un flic (, also known as Dirty Money) is a 1972 French film, the last directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It stars Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve and Richard Crenna. Delon had previously worked with Melville on "Le Samourai" and "Le Cercle Rouge" playing the role of a criminal. In "Un Flic" Delon's role is reversed. He plays the cop, Édouard Coleman, this time in pursuit of Simon, a notorious Paris thief, who is very hard to pin down. "The only feelings mankind has ever inspired in policemen are those of indifference and derision..." (Eugène-François Vidocq) After a raid on
Flic Story focusing on a growing rapport between Buisson and the protagonist Borniche. Deray's humanizing of the characters was a trait used in his other films, and was a popular counter-cliché concept in France during the 1970s. The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital. The opening scene shows reluctant detective ("flic" is the French slang equivalent of "cop" in English) Borniche, who is given