Asylum (2008/I)

Réalisateur:

Olivier Château

Scénariste:

Olivier Château (writer)

Date de sortie:

16 avril 2008 (France)

Genre:

Science-Fiction | Thriller

Intrigue:

Jack, a young thug, mingles with a bunch of hard boiled gangsters and tries to outsmart them. He ends up tied to a tree on a chain like a dog. A new adventure begins, not the one he had wished for.

Plot Keywords:

Gangster | Torture | Neo Noir | Violence | One Word Title

Avis des utilisateurs:

The chain

Ensemble

Julien Courbey	...	Jack
Jean-Marie Lamour	...	L'homme
Jacques Frantz	...	Le patron
Jean-Pierre Kalfon	...	Le grand patron
Abel Jafri	...	Le décontracté
Alexandre Pesle	...	L'assistant
Frédéric Saurel	...	Le gardien
Ménélik	...	Le joueur roulette #1
Bruno Le Millin	...	Le joueur roulette #2
Jeanne Savary	...	La femme
François Feroleto	...	Le frimeur
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Graham Elwood
Dean Haglund

Autre(s) titre(s):

I Want to Be a Gangster (International: English title)

Durée:

France:80 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français | Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur | Couleur (Technicolor)

Classification:

France:U (with warning)

Société:

Every Pictures

The chain

With such a low rating and no comment,who will watch this excellent thriller which forms a sharp contrast to the average level of the French so called film noir of the era? The first third may seem trite and with its subjects of Russian roulette or "the gays who would enjoy smoking cigars(?)" ,it could lead the director in Tarantino territory.Things go better with the "test" you've got to pass to be part of the gang ;there's a lot of black humor in the scene in which the hero "teaches" a young recruit (a head's relative)how to hold up a bank.

But the movie really takes off when the young hero "ends up tied to a tree like a dog in a forest where there 's nobody miles around";or almost nobody should I write.With very restricted means,the film becomes closer to some of HItchcock's enclosed space movies,such works as "rope" or "lifeboat" .To write more would be a spoiler.If you find the final unexpected twist far-fetched (and it is in a way),remember the plane .

The gangsters scenes which are actually a long flashback are badly introduced with pretentious pictures in the "present",but apart from this,this is an unfairly overlooked thriller.