Director:
Olivier MarchalGuión:
Olivier MarchalCámara:
Denis RoudenMúsica:
Bruno CoulaisReparto:
Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy, Catherine Marchal, Francis Renaud, Gérald Laroche, Guy Lecluyse, Philippe Nahon, Clément Michu, Moussa Maaskri (más)Sinopsis(1)
Ever since the brutal slaughter of her parents, Justine has lived in solitude, wishing to remain as close to invisible as possible. However, the early release of the killer stirs up fear and pain. She finds an unlikely source of comfort in Louis Schneider, a troubled Crime Squad cop in Marseille. With his police force discredited by a series of particularly savage and vicious murders which remain inexplicably unsolved, Schneider, an incorruptible individualist, decides to go against the opinion of his superiors and begins an investigation which will lead him to the gates of hell. Will helping Justine lead him to some form of redemption? (StudioCanal UK)
(más)Reseñas (7)
Un sombrío thriller policíaco en la línea de las películas Seven o Zodiac de Fincher. Fuerte atmósfera de desesperación, gran Daniel Auteuil, bella y frágil Olivia Bonamy, diálogos con servilletas sucias en un cenicero regado con whisky frío. Técnicamente brillante. Pero el guión podría haber sido más comedido a la hora de ahogar en alcohol al policía de Auteuil. Probablemente bebe más que Nick Cage en Leaving Las Vegas y hace que la película parezca 20 minutos más larga de lo que es. Pero toda esa penumbra construida con diligencia aún merece cuatro estrellas sólidas.
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Olivier Marchal, a former law enforcement officer and director with a God-given talent, tells another story. That story is that carrying a badge is a heavy burden and it usually doesn't end with the discovery of the killer. Marchal tells the story simply, almost sparingly, and more or less in images. He doesn't prattle on in dialogue and the actors make it all feel incredibly vital, pulsating, and real, like life in uniform itself. The best "crime" film since Zodiac.
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Marchal once again puts his experience in the police force to use and creates a world full of assholes and even bigger assholes through one filter after another. Auteuil proves again and again why he is the best actor in continental Europe. Bruno Coulais managed to deliver a composition of a lifetime, and the screenplay is not nearly as run-of-the-mill as it may initially seem. And if you can find a more sensual femme fatale than Olivia Bonamy in France today, then I’d really like to meet her. But this all pales in comparison with one aspect. The atmosphere. It engrosses you right from the opening title sequence of the bus “hijacking". That scene is literally everything a viewer (like me) could ask from this kind of movie. And the best part? That it didn’t end there, but continued like that for the rest of the movie, even though the pace was a bit slow in places (although this time it kind of worked for me). If Marchal’s 36th Precinct revived the classic French crime movie and brought it to the threshold of the 21st century, then The Last Deadly Mission gives us hope that it wasn’t just a shot in the dark.
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A revolting setting, repulsive crimes. Corruption, brutality, fascist practices. Dead people, wounded animals. The situation is bad and it will get even worse. There is no brighter outlook. And floundering in this cesspool is a half-sober Auteuil. French directors are world champions in abusing their protagonists, as seen not only in torture-porn horror flicks, but also in extremely bleak crime thrillers like The Last Deadly Mission. Marchal is not interested only in the body and the possibilities of its deformation, but also in the soul, thanks to which the contrived despair is at least “theoretically” underpinned by existential philosophy. The only constants are birth and death, both of which the director ruthlessly throws at us in the climax, which with its affected grand tragedy (he will be named Louis) locks all of the film’s realistic qualities (which were initially present) in a small, dark chamber. I had to laugh at the pretentious seriousness of the final minutes, though of course I didn’t find the depiction of a human being as eternally drowning in shit to be entirely unlikable… 70%
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The French have done it again. MR 73 is one of the grittiest crime dramas I've ever seen. This film is about honour! An homage to the torture, the courage, and the lives of the people the film is based on. The biggest highlight is definitely the birth at the end, which convinced me that I never wanted to see one with my own eyes in my life.
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