This is a cinematographer's film. Kelari, who is mainly a cinematographer, got to direct this film because of an incidence. The arrangement with the original film's director fell apart and producers gave the film to Kelari to direct. The visuals are gripping, funny and reminded me of Kiarostami's nature shots.I watched the film in NY's Moma.
detective, police officer, informant, drug dealer, friend, father, tense, gritty, emotional, paris, slum, police station, street, france, drug trade, double life, suicide, friendship, police corruption, family dysfunction, temptation, transformation, fall, pursuit, 1990s
Can't say I understood everything that happened in this movie but I liked it. I also like the affirming of the stereotype of pretty french girls in striped shirts and berets fighting gangsters or whoever currently needs to be beaten up.
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