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Director: Romain Gavras
Movie review
From Time Out London
Remember that redhead-genocide video for MIA’s single ‘Born Free’? Well, this is sort-of-but-not-really the feature version. It shares the promo’s director, Romain Gavras, and gingerphobia as a driving element, but here it’s largely internalised. Rémy (Olivier Barthelemy) is your average alienated youth, Patrick (Vincent Cassel) the listless older provocateur who takes him under his wing. The red(ish) hair they share proves a useful device for stoking Rémy’s various complexes – three parts persecution to one part messiah with a good dose of closet anxiety thrown in – and they strike up a sort of vagabond ‘Fight Club’ à deux, getting in the faces of the hapless denizens of post-industrial northern France. It’s nicely photographed and Cassel and Barthelemy show willing but, facile references to Irish Republicanism notwithstanding, there’s a whiff of inconsequentiality around the film, which feels stretched at just over 80 minutes. These chumps’ day won’t come any time soon.Author: Ben Walters
Time Out London Issue 2136: July 28 - Aug 3, 2011
User reviews of this film
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- Joseph K said...
- Posted on Jan 25 2012 23:54 Just watch the film and stop wasting time reading reviews by random losers like myself or wannbe hacks like Ben Walters. Contains violence, frenchness, and some large boobs.
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- Thanos said...
- Posted on Jul 29 2011 10:44 The movie was for me the best surprise in films for a long time. I went unprepared what to expect and I left the cinema exhilarated! Such a brilliant idea about the concept of identity and what a manic fervor from Cassel! Obviously Mr. Walters who wrote about the film did not get it AT ALL! Irish republicanism???? He obviously missed the metaphor altogether...
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Cast & crew
Director: Romain Gavras
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy, Justine Lerooy full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction, Thrillers
Rated: 18
Duration: 83 mins
UK Release: Jul 29 2011
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