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In director Dominik Moll’s superb 2022 police thriller, The Night of the 12th, the focus was on French detectives pursuing a vicious killer who was forever out of reach. The closer they came to nabbing him, the more he got away, leaving them to turn in circles year after year during a long, existential quest that left none of them unscathed.

In that movie, the cops were flawed human beings and clearly chauvinistic (there was only one woman on the squad), but they were still the good guys. In Dossier 137, a piercing slow-burn examination of police brutality, the tables have turned and the cops have become the criminals, making us question the very notion of policing in a France racked by social unrest and class division. Made with the same laser-cut precision as his previous work, but with a greater emphasis on procedure than before, Moll’s new thriller...

On Tuesday, delegates from France’s national film center held a press-conference in Cannes to share the good news: Moviegoing was on the rise, with admissions, local productions and theater openings all on the upswing throughout 2024. Two days later, one could still, ever so faintly, hear those exhibitors’ sighs of relief once Dominik Moll’s “Case 137” made its world premiere – because this slight police drama is of the exact type that will benefit from the relaxed expectations of ticket-buyers who hit the cinema once or twice a week, rather than a few times per year.

Modest in scale and ambition, this factually inspired, “just the facts, ma’am” drama finds an internal affairs officer investigating a case of police brutality, with both the film and its lead cop hitting the ground with an uncommon degree of tenacity. And give the title credit for honesty, as “Dossier 137” barely deviates from the work at hand,...

Sometimes, the stacks of paper on Inspector Bertrand’s desk pile up so perilously that it look as if she is about to disappear under an avalanche of files; her computer screen is like a retaining wall, with the thin, ferrety inspector burrowed in behind it. Stéphanie Bertrand’s (Léa Drucker) job, which she performs with dogged rigor, is to investigate complaints against police officers. In Dominik Moll’s Dossier 137, we join her in the wake of the 2018 gilets jaunes demonstrations, when 300,000 rural workers, mostly newbies to the rough and tumble of street politics, surged into Paris. Many went home wounded. Bertrand’s files are piling up.

French-German director Moll has made his considerable name with psychological stealth thrillers, peopled with eccentrics and spiced with peculiar motifs like the persistent rodent in Lemming (2005), the raw eggs quaffed by Sergi Lopez in Harry, He’s Here to Help (2000) or the...

Waiting for Bojangles Trailer — Regis Roinsard‘s Waiting for Bojangles / En attendant Bojangles (2022) movie trailer has been released by Blue Fox Entertainment. The Waiting for Bojangles trailer stars Romain Duris, Virginie Efira, Grégory Gadebois, and Solan Machado Graner. Crew Romain Compingt wrote the screenplay for Waiting for Bojangles, “adapted by Régis Roinsard, based on [...]

Continue reading: Waiting For Bojangles (2022) Movie Trailer: Romain Duris & Virginie Efira star in Regis Roinsard’s Dance Romance Film...

"I should have kept our feet on the ground." Blue Fox has released an official US trailer for Waiting for Bojangles, a French romantic drama involving dance and love and family. It already opened in France in January under the title En attendant Bojangles, and is finally coming to US theaters this September. Every night in their Parisian apartment in front of their little boy, Camille and Georges dance to their favorite song "Mr Bojangles". With them, there is only place for fun and fantasy. They must be referring to the "Mr. Bojangles" originally by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The film stars 5-time César Award nominee Romain Duris, 4-time César Award nominee Virginie Efira (also seen in Benedetta), and César Award winner Grégory Gadebois, with newcomber Solan Machado Graner as a young boy in the south of France who recounts the epic love story of his parents – from madcap highs to heartbreaking lows.