Gegen die Flammen

It is a beautiful film more for the crumbs of life showed in honest, simple, precise manner, from family and the balance with work, to misogyn reactions, from guilt to lessons teached to young people, from sexual aspects to the vocation.

In same measure, it is a well acted film and this detail is just a significant one.

It is a pledge for discover the other and for courage to be yourself.

A beautiful film about imperfect people, work troubles, reactions, fireworkers and way to define reality.

Not the story itself matters, but the fine crafted characters. And, indeed, this is more than a good point. In short, gratitude for nice job for Emilie Dequenne, Michael Abiteboul and Roschddy Zem.

This movie almost acts as a documentary showing the daily life of firemen. We follow the different difficulties they have to face - a little too much in drawing up an exhaustive list however.

The weakness of the movie is by wanting to show a realistic depiction of their daily life, the story is lacking a bit and, if the characters are interesting and clearly bringing their share to that depiction, a 'macguffin' on top of the arrival of a woman team leader in the unit would have been a plus.