Kompromat
- 2022
- Tous publics
- 2h 7min
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Mathieu Roussel, directeur de l'Alliance française de Irkoutsk, en Sibérie, se retrouve inopinément incarcéré à cause d'un kompromat le visant. Afin d'échapper à la prison et au FSB il doit ... Tout lireMathieu Roussel, directeur de l'Alliance française de Irkoutsk, en Sibérie, se retrouve inopinément incarcéré à cause d'un kompromat le visant. Afin d'échapper à la prison et au FSB il doit fuir à travers tout le pays.Mathieu Roussel, directeur de l'Alliance française de Irkoutsk, en Sibérie, se retrouve inopinément incarcéré à cause d'un kompromat le visant. Afin d'échapper à la prison et au FSB il doit fuir à travers tout le pays.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
Michael Gor
- Rostov
- (as Mikhail Gorevoy)
Daniil Vorobyov
- Sasha
- (as Danila Vorobyev)
Igor Zhizhikin
- Sagarine
- (as Igor Jijikine)
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And his will to survive - well this is not a movie about boxing, so no pun intended. I assume you knew this anyway, but just wanted to make sure, you'd understand my method and my summary (head)lines. We have something that is based in reality or something that actually happened - I did not check what things were made up or exaggerated, in case you were wondering.
The movie is heightened for sure and has quite a few near misses and a lot of tension. You may be wondering what is happening at times, but the time frame and the timeline jumps are carefully chosen, so I reckon most will be able to follow ... well no pun intended again, since some in the movie seem unable to follow ... well the movie would not happen, if they did.
It may be a bit too long for its own good ... and I thought there was an ending 20-30 minutes before the movie actually ended ... we needed another highlight I assume ... can't just let the movie ... drown like that ...
The movie is heightened for sure and has quite a few near misses and a lot of tension. You may be wondering what is happening at times, but the time frame and the timeline jumps are carefully chosen, so I reckon most will be able to follow ... well no pun intended again, since some in the movie seem unable to follow ... well the movie would not happen, if they did.
It may be a bit too long for its own good ... and I thought there was an ending 20-30 minutes before the movie actually ended ... we needed another highlight I assume ... can't just let the movie ... drown like that ...
"It's too long", someone wrote. Well, I disagree. First of all, French directors don't generally hew to the mad pacing American filmgoers are used to. This is quite obvious - you have to go into the theater with a different notion of what an action film should look like.
The film is extremely tight all the way through. Extraordinary attention to detail, and the cinematography is outstanding. Just beautiful. Yes, the plot is somewhat convoluted - but it's based on an incredible true story. It's also timely in that it informs the audience of the true terror people are living in, in the totalitarian state of Russia. G-d knows how many people are wrongfully imprisoned. This is the story of a man who, incredibly, was able to escape the clutches of the Russian state. It's worth watching for that reason alone.
The film is extremely tight all the way through. Extraordinary attention to detail, and the cinematography is outstanding. Just beautiful. Yes, the plot is somewhat convoluted - but it's based on an incredible true story. It's also timely in that it informs the audience of the true terror people are living in, in the totalitarian state of Russia. G-d knows how many people are wrongfully imprisoned. This is the story of a man who, incredibly, was able to escape the clutches of the Russian state. It's worth watching for that reason alone.
I am personally a self-avowed Russia watcher and have been since the 70s so anything to do with Russia especially society and the way in which it has evolved in some ways and not in others is of utmost interest to me
So this one here was always going to be of great interest. It basically shows institutions functioning the way they were under the Czars of old times (The Cheka begat the NKVD which begat The KGB which begat the current FSB) the modus operandi has not really shifted much ...
It also shows on the other hand the spinelessness of the French diplomatic corps in this case but admittedly could be cut and pasted to almost any diplomatic corps anywhere in the world at any time.
I was fortunate enough to catch the original account of the real hero of this piece the Alliance Française Director to whom this story really happened on radio. Two of the more dramatic events in the film I do not recall happened in real life or the "help" but then again the filmmakers here had to have a punchy story and they certainly do. So they added grittier elements.
The drummed-up charges and the Kompromat (cool terrifying word) were described pretty much as were. Insofar as I know the man to whom this happened still does not know exactly to this day who was responsible but it is pretty much give or take what is recounted here .
As we said before this could be Czarist Russia and or any other fine work Georgian Stalin produced in his finest hour.
So here they got the storyline spot-on and added dramatic events they got the dialogue really good in French and Russian they used actors who could possibly be seen as Russians and many of them actually were Russians.
As regards the acting the main protagonist Gilles Lellouche is fairly good here but personally I have seen him mostly in comedy and he has a pi..-taker face which doesn't really suit drama you expect him to say something inappropriate at any time and when it comes to crying scenes as someone else has pointed out he doesn't pass muster. See him in Les infidèles (2012)
The Polish actress here Joanna Kulig is thoroughly excellent maybe a tad too torrid for the role and she does the misery bit to a tee
The main FSB baddie of the peace Michael Gor a true muscovite actor is also really excellent here good sense of menace
All in all when I realised it was the tale of the story I'd heard on the radio only a few months ago maybe even a few weeks I thought oh no they are going to make a mess of this; and then I realized they hadn't this is really really gripping...
The use of streets and locales is excellent too you really get a sense of Siberia I do not know exactly where it was filmed I see from the credits many Lithuanian names and maybe this indicates some of it might have been filmed in Lithuania but in the credits it also mentions Russia so I do not quite understand how they could've got the green light to film this in Russia but maybe when I find out more I will come back and correct if I got the wrong end of the stick.
Highly recommended for any Russia-watcher any person interested in the way in which Russian society is moving forward or not also a great indictment of the diplomatic corps in this case the French but as mentioned before probably would be the same with many other countries.
So this one here was always going to be of great interest. It basically shows institutions functioning the way they were under the Czars of old times (The Cheka begat the NKVD which begat The KGB which begat the current FSB) the modus operandi has not really shifted much ...
It also shows on the other hand the spinelessness of the French diplomatic corps in this case but admittedly could be cut and pasted to almost any diplomatic corps anywhere in the world at any time.
I was fortunate enough to catch the original account of the real hero of this piece the Alliance Française Director to whom this story really happened on radio. Two of the more dramatic events in the film I do not recall happened in real life or the "help" but then again the filmmakers here had to have a punchy story and they certainly do. So they added grittier elements.
The drummed-up charges and the Kompromat (cool terrifying word) were described pretty much as were. Insofar as I know the man to whom this happened still does not know exactly to this day who was responsible but it is pretty much give or take what is recounted here .
As we said before this could be Czarist Russia and or any other fine work Georgian Stalin produced in his finest hour.
So here they got the storyline spot-on and added dramatic events they got the dialogue really good in French and Russian they used actors who could possibly be seen as Russians and many of them actually were Russians.
As regards the acting the main protagonist Gilles Lellouche is fairly good here but personally I have seen him mostly in comedy and he has a pi..-taker face which doesn't really suit drama you expect him to say something inappropriate at any time and when it comes to crying scenes as someone else has pointed out he doesn't pass muster. See him in Les infidèles (2012)
The Polish actress here Joanna Kulig is thoroughly excellent maybe a tad too torrid for the role and she does the misery bit to a tee
The main FSB baddie of the peace Michael Gor a true muscovite actor is also really excellent here good sense of menace
All in all when I realised it was the tale of the story I'd heard on the radio only a few months ago maybe even a few weeks I thought oh no they are going to make a mess of this; and then I realized they hadn't this is really really gripping...
The use of streets and locales is excellent too you really get a sense of Siberia I do not know exactly where it was filmed I see from the credits many Lithuanian names and maybe this indicates some of it might have been filmed in Lithuania but in the credits it also mentions Russia so I do not quite understand how they could've got the green light to film this in Russia but maybe when I find out more I will come back and correct if I got the wrong end of the stick.
Highly recommended for any Russia-watcher any person interested in the way in which Russian society is moving forward or not also a great indictment of the diplomatic corps in this case the French but as mentioned before probably would be the same with many other countries.
Jerome Salle seems to be specialized in adventure thrillers: LARGO WINCH 1 and 2, ZULU, only THE ODYSSEY was not a thriller. But this movie definitely is. And the Russian element in this film released just during the war in Ukraine sounds very strange, what a coincidence. Well this is a classical international thriller with no great surprise, except an excellent directing and acting, but where nothing is done to attract tourists to visit Russia and its tolerance, his friendly behavior towards foreigners; I mean the authorities, not the common folk. Gilles Lelouche is awesome, as usual. A bit long, though and I repeat, unfortunately predictable.
This is the kind of movie that everyone living in civilised and comfortable prosperous calm world must see. Everyone just living his own life, enjoying moments with friends and family. But if you live in Russia, it is like if Alice on the other side of the mirror. As soon as in nowadays Russia, you will easily learn that the rule of law doesn't exist. That anyone with even smallest grasp of power uses it to his own benefit. That human life is worthless - own citizens, and foreigners - even less. That there are no logical explanation nor motives for prosecuting or jailing an innocent man. Everything runs on an almost medieval barbaric logic. All that is Russia nowadays.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThis movie is inspired by a true story, in which a French citizen in Siberia, Yoann Barbereau, director of the local branch of the Alliance française, was accused of pedophilia, based on very flimsy evidence. However, the writer/director did not acquire the rights of Barbereau's book and decided to write an action thriller instead of the very Kafkaesque original story. This was heavily criticized, both by Barbereau and by several critics during its release, as they felt the characters are very cliche and some story beats quite unbelievable.
- Crédits fousThe title appears on screen in cyrillic script.
- ConnexionsReferences Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
- Bandes originales39th Parallel North (for Electronics)
Written by Julius Aglinskas
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Site officiel
- Langues
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Kompromat, el expediente ruso
- Lieux de tournage
- Sociétés de production
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- Montant brut mondial
- 4 314 029 $US
- Durée2 heures 7 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 2.39 : 1
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