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Jupiter's Thigh

Movie
Audience Score
62
Jupiter's Thigh
NR 1 hr 40 minComedyInspector Tanquerelle PosterPart of Inspector Tanquerelle
Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?
StarringPhilippe NoiretAnnie GirardotFrancis Perrin
DirectorPhilippe de Broca

Movie Details

Original Language:French
Production Companies:Les Films Ariane, Mondex Films, France 3 Cinéma
Movie Tags:
murdersequel

Inspector Tanquerelle

When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector.