REVIEW: Brigade de Moeurs / Brigade of Death (1985) Max Pécas' ultra-sleazy return to Vice City
We do have a soft spot here for Max Pécas and would gladly present his work in one of the next issues of KRIMI!. But then some French connoisseur should step up to do the heavy lifting of archival research. So meanwhile, all we can do here is watch his movies. After some initial hard-hitting low-budget films criminels in the 1960s, Pecas jumped on the wagon of the sexual revolution and became very comfortable producing SC masterworks like "I AM FRIGID, BUT WHY?" (1973), but when pornography became legal and he did not want to go there, he produced a steady flow of SC beach bunny comedies that - I have been told—influenced a whole generation of French men and certainly Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who would produce the very successful "Lemon Popsicle" movies that would generate the money to start their CANNON adventure. But now it is 1984, and sex comedies are a thing of the past. So Pécas comes up with this one:Clearly inspired by Michael Mann's Miami Vice, ...
