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Bookmark this pageDobermann (1997)
Director: Jan Kounen
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This is a film disconcertingly at ease with the hyper-charged squalor of its dog-eat-dog criminal netherland. The attraction is obvious - guns'n'goons here mean sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, at high speed and volume - and obviously limited. Either you get off on this cartoon nihilism or you get out. There's an end, a middle, and at least three beginnings to announce the director's intentions: a swaggeringly animated dog pisses over the opening credits; a baptismal benediction ends with the baby united with a gun in his cot; and the now grown Dobermann (Cassel) and moll (Bellucci) get hard and wet playing highway robbers with a rocket launcher. Thereafter, there's an extended sequence in which the Dobermann and his 'kennel' of depraved hard cases pull off a Paris bank heist under the noses of their police watchdogs, followed by another in which an extremely renegade police inspector (Karyo) attempts to trump his nemesis by taking the law and its arsenal into his own brutal hands.Author: NB
User reviews of this film
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- Jeff Stockton (honolulu) said...
- Posted on Aug 17 2009 22:36 Probably the best French action movie ever made. An all-star cast, and Quentin Tarantino action--on steroids-- make this a must see film
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- blallalala said...
- Posted on Apr 06 2009 23:54 if you like it cynical bloody and funny, watch it.
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Cast & crew
Director: Jan Kounen
Producer: Frédérique Dumas, Eric Névé
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Tchéky Karyo, Antoine Basler, Dominique Bettenfeld, Romain Duris full cast
Genre(s): Gangsters
Duration: 103 mins
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