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Intimate Enemies (2007)
Director: Florent Emilio Siri
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From Time Out New York
A French platoon (in a movie that you might describe as a French Platoon) navigates the mountainous region of Kabylia and the equally rocky anxieties of occupation during the Algerian War, circa 1959. Albert Dupontel plays a world-weary sergeant, while Benoît Magimel is the naive young lieutenant whose ethical idealism is crushed by the horrors of combat, torture and plenty of other melodramatic war-movie clichés. Conventional as the film may be, the two leads are quite adept, and director Florent Emilio Siri proves to have an exquisite eye for battlefield tableaux.Author: Aaron Hillis
Time Out New York
Cast & crew
Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Cast: Benoît Magimel, Albert Dupontel, Aurélien Recoing
Rated: NR
Duration: 111 mins
US Release: Oct 2 2009
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