A good movie

Basically, it is once again one of those really obscure French movies which almost no one has seen here on Listal. Let me correct this, I’m the only one who has seen this movie so far! A few years back, we used to have a French-speaking channel called TV5 and they would often broadcast movies. Some of them were pretty classic and some others were pretty obscure. Well, this movie definitely belonged to the 2nd group. In fact, the director, Catherine Breillat, is actually pretty notorious for her rather sexually explicit movies like ‘Romance’. If you expect something edgy like ‘Romance’ when watching this, you will be quite disappointed though. Basically, it is a rather straightforward police neo-noir feature but I did like the tone which was pretty dark. It was also fun to see Lio in this. You have probably never heard of her but back in the 80’s-90’s in France, she was one of the most obnoxious singer you could think of but, to be honest, she gave here a decent performance. I also liked Claude Brasseur who was pretty good, portraying a seasoned tough cop. To conclude, even though the whole thing is nothing really amazing, it is actually a pretty good flick and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10