Tir à vue

I am french and not that proud nor nostalgic of the eighties stuff in general. I don't speak about this film in particular, it is no better no worse than another of this period. A petty hoodlum story, a young man in revolt against police, government, a nihilistic scheme, as so many in those years and decade. It is gloomy, predictable but agreeable to see anyway, a good time waster, thanks to Sandrine Bonnaire too. I nearly forgot Jean Carmet, excellent in a very unexpected cop role, a weird, not funny but a character who can make you scratch your head.

Made before Sandrine Bonnaire became a French icon with San Toi Ni Loi (Vagabond), Tir a Vue is a solid and perverse contribution to the Young Gangsters in Love genre wherein wannabe Bad Guy meets up with not-so-innocent Sex Kitten who turns out to be The Villain he could only dream of becoming. Generous helpings of nudity, raunchy storylines, and that spicy grit only French crime movies can produce -- a genuine Lost Treasure to be found only in Quebec and/or French video shoppes.

If you see it dubbed in English ,you may find that worthwhile.But in French,it's really a dud:an unbelievable hotchpotch which blends elements of a very poor man's contemporary Bonnie and Clyde and of "à bout de soufflé".Sandrine Bonnaire is awfully directed and her lines are most of the time completely ridiculous.Her character comes out of the blue,and ,on the other hand ,we're not spared her partner's and the two detectives' frames of mind.A very unfriendly look at the gays and the Arabs does not redeem the film.Sex and violence make up for the paucity of the screenplay.Sandrine Bonnaire was lucky enough to survive "tir à vue"