After a comedy in the afternoon, there was nothing to laugh about in this movie. Set in Paris, in the heat of a summer this is the Paris of council flats and immigrant communities. A new cop joins two partners of a street crime unit, and they spend the day cruising the streets. When a confrontation begins to turn ugly, things quickly escalate with brutal consequences.
This drama is pretty with confrontational with a lot of violence and a pretty grim backdrop of run down flats and rubbish filled courtyards. I overheard one elderly man say "we live a pretty sheltered life here" as I left the cinema, and I have to agree, it is a side of Paris we don't see very often and it looked a scary place to live. 3/5
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I still prefer the original "Les Miserables". I have to have escapism in my movies, I'm afraid.
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