9/10
Tour de Force for a comedy specialist
20 June 2020
It has already been told before, but the director Cedric Kaplish is delinitely a comedy film maker, a pretty good one, and certainly not a crime flick specialist; nothing to do with Olivier Marchal for instance. But here, I was amazed, stunned, jaw dropped after the watching of this gritty French film, where Kaplish did not dropped everything from his own style, but where there is a slight touch of Jean Pierre Melville. Just remember the two US directors Richard Quine and Blake Edwards, both comedy specialists, and among the best, both gave us tremendous film noirs: PUSHOVER for Quine and EXPERIMENT IN TERROR for Edwards. Don't miss the very last second of the movie, and Marie Gillain's face and glance. It means so many unsaid things, so many....
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