In Choice of Arms, Yves Montand heads an all-star cast, including Catherine Denueve and Gerard Depardieu, as a former crook pulled out of retirement.

Serie Noire adapts Jim Thompson's A Hell of A Woman to the banlieues of Paris: in an astonishing performance, Patrick Dewaere (Themroc) attempts to save a young girl from prostitution, with murder the only solution.

Bonus Materials

• High-Definition digital transfer
• Interviews with Alain Corneau, Patrick Dewaere and Miriam Boyer from Belgian Television (1981, 11 mins)
• Série noire: The Darkness of the Soul - An archival documentary featuring cast and crew on the making of the film (2013, 50 mins)
• Archival interview with Alain Corneau and Marie Trintignant (2002, 29 mins)
• A Hollyhock in a Cornfield - A visual essay about Jim Thompson adaptations for the screen by Paul Martinovic (2024)

Cast & Crew

Actors:

• Patrick Dewaere
• Myriam Boyer
• Marie Trintignant
• Bernard Blier

Director: Alain Corneau