A good movie

Honestly, it is a real obscure flick, in fact, I was the very first listal user to rate this movie. And, yet, for some reasons, if I recall it correctly, I still ended up watching it in the movie theater when it was released. Anyway, even though it was not really original, I thought it was a very bleak and quite depressing depiction about some junkies in Paris but it was very realistic and still compelling to watch. Indeed, even though I always enjoyed ‘Trainspotting’, I always thought that Renton and his buddies seemed to have way too much fun considering their life style. Here, there is no fun whatsoever, only despair and suffering and after ‘Christiane F. ‘ and ‘Requiem for a dream’, it must be one of the darkest movies dealing with addiction I have ever seen. Seriously, I saw this flick years ago and I’m still haunted by the whole thing. Concerning Julie Gayet, a couple of years ago, she made some headlines in France because she was having an affair with the French president, François Hollande, but I thought that she gave a really solid performance here. To conclude, even though it might not be a masterpiece, I thought it was a decent drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.

7/10