Malfeasance: Four Films by Yves Boisset (Blu-ray) ***Preorder*** 4/14

This collection features four films directed by thriller master, Yves Boisset (The Cop, Dog Day). Angel’s Leap (Le Saut de l’ange) (1971) You can leave the mob, but the mob won’t leave you. An ex-gangster in Bangkok (Jean Yanne) leaps back to Marseille to exact revenge on his siblings’ murderers. FBI man Sterling Hayden and femme fatale Senta Berger highlight this ultra-violent vendetta tale. Music by François de Roubaix (Le samouraï). Mad Enough to Kill (Folle à tuer) (1975) In this twisted thriller, a wealthy industrialist (Michael Lonsdale) hires a former psychiatric patient (Marlène Jobert) to look after his recently orphaned nephew. But the woman and the boy soon find themselves ensnared by a cold-blooded hit-man (Tomas Milian). Music by Philippe Sarde (Tess). The Woman Cop (La Femme flic) (1980) Miou-Miou is magnificent as Corinne Levasseur, a gritty city policewoman who is transferred to a small mining town where she battles sexism and a trail of corruption that leads to the town’s most powerful family. Boisset based this intense depiction of “la femme flic” on actual events. Music by Philippe Sarde (Quest for fire). Rise Up, Spy (Espion, lève-toi) (1982) In a plum late-career role, Lino Ventura plays a sleeper agent in Switzerland who is activated after eight years of silence when the corpses start piling up. This paranoid pulse-pounder co-stars Michel Piccoli and Bruno Cremer. Music by Ennio Morricone (The Sicilain Clan). The first three films in this collection were all newly restored in 4K, the Rise Up, Spy master is an earlier 2K restoration.