It's not enough to have good actors, you got to have also an excellent script for the good movie to come out. Michel Constantin and Jean Bouise are worthy of
watching in anything, just by their simple presence, they have charm and naturalness. Serge Reggiani is, in my humble opinion, in his best role. But the rest, that is, the whole story, is incredible, long, boring. Juliet Berto, although natural in everything she does, is from a completely different film, together with Patrick Bouchitey, who, in his first role in a film, is downright annoying. The usual exceptional music of François de Roubaix (a kind of French Morricone) does not save anything. Robert Enrico has some very good films under his belt and even this one had potential, if he had changed a lot of things.
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A typical french crime movie from the seventies
searchanddestroy-120 July 2008
Warning: Spoilers
The tale of friendship among thieves, bank robbers who are also stunt men in the same time. For cover. One of them - Bouise - has a daughter of around twenty years old - Berto - who is in love with a young thug - Bouchitey. This petty thief wants of course be in the run with the older gangsters.
They plan and operate on a bank heist. They first take the bank director's family for hostage, and go to the safe deposit boxes armored room in order to crack one the safes. Full of money.
So, everything begins to fall out for them all...
A pretty good thriller, poignant, heart gripping, with good action sequences. A violent picture. We also find the topic of rebel youth, through the love between Berto and Bouchitey. The friendship between Bouise and Reggiani is also intense.
The ending is devastating, depressing at the possible.
They plan and operate on a bank heist. They first take the bank director's family for hostage, and go to the safe deposit boxes armored room in order to crack one the safes. Full of money.
So, everything begins to fall out for them all...
A pretty good thriller, poignant, heart gripping, with good action sequences. A violent picture. We also find the topic of rebel youth, through the love between Berto and Bouchitey. The friendship between Bouise and Reggiani is also intense.
The ending is devastating, depressing at the possible.
Desultory .
ulicknormanowen29 August 2020
This is Robert Enrico 's worst film by such a wide margin it's hard to believe that director made very good works, "les aventuriers" ,"les grandes gueules" ,let alone "au coeur de la vie" ,one segment of which "incident at owl creek bridge" is world-wide known .
This is a disjointed screenplay , a cock and bull story which ends like a poor man's 'Bonnie and Clyde" , with would be poetic slow-motion pictures to boot.
Implausibilities begin from the first scene :a young man kills his fickle lover and her new beau ;there are plenty of witnesses in the restaurant , but no one call the police who later on do not seem to search the murderer who could be identified easily though .Then it's pure run-of-the-mill gangsters story: bank break in, escape from jail (they free all the prisoners ,including women ,which spawns an orgy ) ,informers , all the clichés in a disaster which crosses all generic boundaries ;there's also a stuntmen's show -in which friendly faces appear , in order to give the movie a fantasy nuance- ,pure filler.
With actors such as Serge Reggiani -already present in the highly superior "les aventuriers " in a supporting role- and Patrick Bouchitey (extremely bad directed) there could have been an interesting son/surrogate dad relationship .And Juliet Berto ,a cerebral actress does not belong here. For once,even François De Roubaix's score is subpar.An unfriendly look at the -probably gay- accomplice makes the movie even more obnoxious.
This is a disjointed screenplay , a cock and bull story which ends like a poor man's 'Bonnie and Clyde" , with would be poetic slow-motion pictures to boot.
Implausibilities begin from the first scene :a young man kills his fickle lover and her new beau ;there are plenty of witnesses in the restaurant , but no one call the police who later on do not seem to search the murderer who could be identified easily though .Then it's pure run-of-the-mill gangsters story: bank break in, escape from jail (they free all the prisoners ,including women ,which spawns an orgy ) ,informers , all the clichés in a disaster which crosses all generic boundaries ;there's also a stuntmen's show -in which friendly faces appear , in order to give the movie a fantasy nuance- ,pure filler.
With actors such as Serge Reggiani -already present in the highly superior "les aventuriers " in a supporting role- and Patrick Bouchitey (extremely bad directed) there could have been an interesting son/surrogate dad relationship .And Juliet Berto ,a cerebral actress does not belong here. For once,even François De Roubaix's score is subpar.An unfriendly look at the -probably gay- accomplice makes the movie even more obnoxious.
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