‘Monsieur Spade’ Reinvigorates the Hard-Boiled Detective Trope with Brooding Nostalgia
Clive Owen’s hardened masculine charm is put to good use as a burnout, retired PI in the South of France
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5 min readFeb 18, 2024
Contemporary pop culture doesn’t grant much space to hard-boiled noirs and their singular heroes these days. The quick-witted, chain-smoking…