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Joël Houssin
Screenplay -
Jan Kounen
Director -
Chattoune
Costume Design -
Michel Amathieu
Director of Photography -
Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela
Producer -
Éric Névé
Producer -
Philippe Mallier
Original Music Composer -
François Roy
Original Music Composer
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CinemaSerf 11/24/2022 9:00:40 AM
Vincent Cassel is the eponymous bank robber who leads a gang of what can only be described as desperate and disparate eccentrics. Hot in pursuit are the police but they are having little effect until they decide to let the ruthless "Cristini" (Tchéky Karyo) take charge of the investigation. What now ensues is an increasingly bizarre and surreal heist caper that leaves virtually nothing out of bounds with loads of violence, dark comedy, transvestism and then, more violence. I rather liked the ending - it was not what I was expecting nor is it typical of the genre. The writing is pretty ropey though, and the lighting could have been doing with some extra wattage so we could actually see what was going on for more of the time. As a drama it offers us a quickly paced and mildly entertaining, if very unlikely, glimpse of a seedy and grim sub-culture and Cassel - though he doesn't really feature so often - seems to be in his element. It won't be for everyone, this - it is actually quite sordid, and the narrative parodies just about everything from "For A Few Dollars More" (1965) to the "French Connection" (1971) with a bit of soft porn chucked in too. It's not great, no, and I don't imagine I will ever watch to again but still, I didn't hate it..
Monica Bellucci
NathalieVincent Cassel
Yann Le Pentrec aka DobermannPascal Demolon
Inspecteur LefèvreTchéky Karyo
Inspecteur Sauveur CristiniRomain Duris
ManuGaspar Noé
Le marchand de merguez casherAffif Ben Badra
Le macChick Ortega
Jacky Sueur dit Pitbull