Persona non grata

A disappointing French film, the script and the plot twists being of a distressing mediocrity. The actors are nevertheless rather good, notably Nicolas Duvauchelle, Raphaël Personnaz and Roschdy Zem. Although it was not a first attempt as a director, after the popular and successful Chocolate (2016), Roschdy Zem delivers a disjointed and barely-credible film.

I love this movie, only for this reason. The story stinks, so do the characters, everyone more ruthless than the other. Impossible to feel any empathy for any of them. It's a world of sharks, disgusting dudes, ready at anything to achieve their purposes. Anything. Roschdy Zem is absolutely outstanding here as a kind of hired hand, or may I say killer, whom two friends pay to get rid of their boss: the two are played by Nicolas Duvauchelle and Raphaël Personaz. Roschy Zem's character is here totally ambiguous, nasty, disturbing, in the line of some characters that Robert Mitchum had in the past such as NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, CAPE FEAR, FIVE CARDS STUD. You can(t really see what he is after, where he drives at. The climax is also unpredictable. A very distrubing, that stinks, that nearly makes you puke; I love it.