It's a film better suited for the talents of the Coen Brothers.

Garcia - reminiscent of a young Jack Lemmon - puts the hang into dog perfectly and the script will bite your arm off.

It's a black comedy with plenty to say, much of it about the self serving righteousness of Bruno's bourgeois peers

The darkly serious tone of the script, Costa-Gavras' crisp direction and the dead-on acting (pun intended) make Le couperet a very intelligent and hilarious satire.