The dark shadows of New York come to life in this rarely-seen, moody, jazz-soaked noir classic. A film by the great Jean-Pierre Melville, who cast himself as a journalist on an ethically fraught mission to track down a missing French diplomat.
All men seem hopelessly obsessed with Pandora, a nightclub singer on vacation in Spain, but she has eyes only for Hendrick, who has been cursed to sail the seven seas for all eternity in search of a woman who will sacrifice her life for him.
Police inspector Jean Lavardin is tasked with solving a series of grisly murders. In "Chicken with vinegar" and Inspector Lavardin, he travels to a small coastal town to investigate the puzzling death of a wealthy writer murdered on a beach.