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2019
12
1h 20m

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4.5/10

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Drama Thriller

Inspired by a true story, Achille, a handsome Parisian teenager from a wealthy family, is the victim of a violent assault. He is sent to his aunt's, Brigitte for a vacation by the sea to reb... Read allInspired by a true story, Achille, a handsome Parisian teenager from a wealthy family, is the victim of a violent assault. He is sent to his aunt's, Brigitte for a vacation by the sea to rebuild. There he meets an angry young man, Brian who works for the golf club. From their con... Read allInspired by a true story, Achille, a handsome Parisian teenager from a wealthy family, is the victim of a violent assault. He is sent to his aunt's, Brigitte for a vacation by the sea to rebuild. There he meets an angry young man, Brian who works for the golf club. From their confrontation will spring their true nature, from their struggle will be born a killer.

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IMDb RATING

4.5/10

207

YOUR RATING

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9searchanddestroy-1

Berserk

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER I love this ankwar film, sometimes lousy in directing. I loved it, despite of this because you have here no good character vs evil one scheme,at least not as you may expect it to be. The petty bourgeois from the beginning, whom you can feel empathy for, becomes in the end some kind of evil one. And the rebel without a cause punk, by the scarface becomes nearly the good guy of the story. I loved the face to face between the two of them. OK, I repeat, that's pretty clumsy, not tht well acted, played, who I don't care at all. I love unusal schemes.

FrenchEddieFelson

A pathetic thriller

An artificial and tasteless conflict between young offenders and petty bourgeois, clumsily imitating the atmospheres of Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) and Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983), but without the same talent undoubtedly. Everything is stereotyped and predictable, except the ending which is an excretion of madness and gratuitous violence.

Not to mention the deep and refined dialogues, vaguely inspired by a comedy from Molière, as the following scene elegantly suggests. Gabriel: 'Did you see me smashing theirs faces?' Achille: 'No, I was busy getting sucked'. Then, Gabriel begins to pee in the swimming pool. Finally, Achille pushes Gabriel in the pool.

Despite a relatively neat photography and an obvious sense of aesthetics, I guess this movie is a teen challenge to appear in the Bottom 100 of IMDb. Nice try!

5kosmasp

High goals/society

The movie sets out to make complicated things work. Youth and their ... struggles. Rich vs poor kids of sorts ... but not as simple as that. And yes if you compare this to Scorsese or Coppola - their early efforts mostly - this movie will not come up as a winner ... quite the opposite.

Still if you like your dramas to be different you may find some interesting ideas and certainly some interesting performances. Morally there are many things to explore, even when and while they may be confusing. Not great, but not the worst I've seen by a stretch.