I've never really been completely sold on Cedric Klapish and L'Aubage Espanol was a major disappointment, on the other hand I've always like Marie Gillain and polars so a combination of the two had to be worth a couple of hours of my time. You need to get past the initial premise that a violent petty criminal needs a professional camera operator to record a heist and that he finds one so easily in the shape of Marie Gillain who offers only token resistance and quickly abandons any search for a moral compass she may have been engaged in and is happy to become absorbed by the 'gang'. There's a half-hearted attempt to portray a couple of the older members as more or less part-time hoods - one is a choreographer, one a restaurateur but it is, of course, leading inexorably toward the 'big' caper that will end in tears though Klapish tempers this with a twist that would never have been allowed back in the day. Watchable but only once.
