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Bookmark this pageLes Marchands de Sable (2000)
Director: Pierre Salvadori
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From Time Out Film Guide
Compared to Salvadori's earlier films, Wild Target and Les Apprentis, this is a slight disappointment, but, nevertheless, it's a nifty thriller in its own right. It starts at the end, with a fire in Riaboukine's Café le Détour. Flashback to ex-con Golovine's arrival in Paris, and her brother Demy's involvement in a nefarious network of drug deals around the same little circus of cafés, the film's centre of gravity. It's taut and observant, but essentially familiar, and though the cast are credible enough, the characterisation's not so deep that the film really drags you in. (See also Le Détour.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Producer: Philippe Martin, Gilles Sandoz
Cast: Robert Castel, Mathieu Demy, Guillaume Depardieu, Serge Riaboukine, Marina Golovine full cast
Duration: 105 mins
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