Der Duft des Goldes

A worker plans to smuggle luxury perfumes without his employer's knowledge, determined to balance things out and profit from his work.

"Men are born free and equal in rights, but it is each man for himself." So good that it impresses us, surprisingly positive, we already love French cinema, with each extremely intelligent masterpiece, agile script, that sometimes we get lost in the midst of so many amazing plans, urgent twists, turns into occasional flaws, and deadly x9... We hope for the antagonists, evildoers of good, against an animalistic and brutal capitalist system, lol, nonsense, just distraction here, captivating, contagious, adorable...

We have a "Heist" movie with all the tropes that american movies made popular and well... tropes. So... it gives us something new... coming from Europe/France? Not really. The script is good. Good enough twists (I guess some would acuse them of obvious?) and everything coming from the characters works. I was entertained.

But the movie lacks... something. If it wanted to be comedic... just wasn't funny enough. If it wanted to be "light hearted heist movie", it had too much negativity motivating the characters and a bit too much malice coming from them for that.

And if it wanted to be a french "Ocean's Eleven"... just no. It didn't have the style/glamour, which is understandable of course. So, in the end, it was fine. It wasn't bad. But it's just not memorable at all and only recommendable for fans of the sub-genre.

Superb casting for a film in which warehouse employees embezzle part of the production for their own benefit. The gang is led by Raphael Quenard. They start small, then the team grows. All against a backdrop where the factory is about to be sold. This allows the film to address factory life and organization, between the boss, the human resources manager and the team leader.

The film's first quality is that, although we can more or less guess what's going to happen, the progression is simple and regular, maintaining the viewer's interest, containing just the right amount of ellipsis to produce just the right amount of well-placed surprises. The script manages to blend the two dramatic progressions: Raphaël Quenard's team on the one hand, and the boss's intrigue on the other, both of which are bound to come together.

The voice-over of Raphaël Quenard's character works perfectly well and doesn't detract from the narrative.

Another quality is the superb cast, led by Raphaël Quenard, but also including Agathe Rousselle, Brunot Lochet and Stephan Wojtowicz, for example. All perfect.

Surprisingly enough, this is actually a pretty good movie. It's Lighthearted and a rare gem of a lot of sex and violence and profanity like most movies have these days. It was pretty simple to follow but still it had a nice twist at the end. Recommended if you want something that doesn't make you think too much something for the whole family. The acting is good and some of the things that they do are formula, but I guess that happens in every movie these days, the main character is creative and very full of himself in a confident type of way. There actually is some pretty good humor, which sometimes doesn't translate to English.

In netflix, it's "gold brick". In other countries, it's "cash". Daniel works at a perfume factory, and has come up with a plan to make some big bucks fast. He snitches perfume samples from work and sells them online. Each time he gets caught, he has always managed to solve the problem, and get it swept under the rug. But when he gets promoted, now it's harder to smuggle out product. So he needs to bring on more people. Which works for a while. When things are good, daniel's love life goes well, but when things go south... his love life also goes bad. But when they sell the company, an inventory will be taken. And it comes up short. Now it's all hitting the fan. Can daniel find a solution that will please everyone? It's very well done! A fun, slow, heist, from netflix. Written and directed by jérémie rozan. It's fun. It's french.