The Guardian wrote:
Romain Gavras’s new drama-thriller is about racism, violence and injustice in the Paris banlieues – broadly in the tradition of Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine and Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables. It’s spectacular and immersive, with a sensational opening. But it gets bogged down in its own one-note, one-tempo uproar and open-ended parkour camerawork – impressive though that is – and suffers from a number of sneaky false-flag get-out clauses that feel like a cop-out.

It tells the story of four brothers of Algerian origin in the same tough Athena housing estate. Idir has just been killed by a bunch of cops – or guys in cop uniforms – for daring to talk back, an atrocity captured on a viral video. Abdel (Dali Benssalah) is a decorated army hero, Moktar (Ouassini Embarek) is a coke-dealing gangster and Karim (Sami Slimane) is a local guy seething with rage at his brother’s racist murder.

The movie begins with Abdel giving a press conference, flanked by police and politicians, appealing for calm following Idir’s killing and asking people to join him in a “silent march” of peaceful protest. Some hope. In any other movie, that press conference would be a bland opener, a piece of narrative throat-clearing preceding any number of dull dialogue scenes laying out the issues. But not this one. Karim is there at the press conference: he throws a Molotov cocktail at the assembled cops and then, leading hundreds of Athena guys, launches an extraordinary Assault on Precinct 13-style attack on the police station, stealing weapons and a police van before retreating to his inner-city stronghold. This breathtaking action sequence looks like the Battle of Helm’s Deep.

Yet after that audacious coup, the movie loses its dramatic shape as the situation between the three brothers is sketched in. The introduction of a conspiracy theory subplot feels like fence-sitting on the issue of police racism, and the film also brings in a rather perfunctory white “terrorist” figure called Sébastien (Alexis Manenti), who appears to be there to differentiate the brothers from truly fanatical and unjustified violence. The film is very reliant on the news on the TV in the corner to underline the larger, national implications.

Athena is forthright and bold in its way: that opening sequence is a barnstormer. But there is not much human complexity or human authenticity in the drama that follows.

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PLOT: In a small village in the south of France, Dog and Mirales live a conflicting friendship. The duo is upeneded when Elsa arrives in their village, a young woman with whom Dog will fall in love.

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Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a young, bubbly, 19-year-old Jewish girl. Her family watches her discover the world, friends, new love and a passion for the theatre. The aspiring actress is living her youthful life without a care in the world, but she does not know that time may be running out.

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In a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.

Dans les Pyrénées, un loup attise la colère des villageois. Teddy, 19 ans, sans diplôme, vit avec son oncle adoptif et travaille dans un salon de massage. Sa petite amie Rebecca passe bientôt son bac, promise à un avenir radieux. Pour eux, c’est un été ordinaire qui s’annonce. Mais un soir de pleine lune, Teddy est griffé par une bête inconnue. Les semaines qui suivent, il est pris de curieuses pulsions animales…

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Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a young, bubbly, 19-year-old Jewish girl. Her family watches her discover the world, friends, new love and a passion for the theatre. The aspiring actress is living her youthful life without a care in the world, but she does not know that time may be running out. French actress Sandrine Kiberlain makes her directorial feature film debut with a story of self-discovery, loss and one woman’s world on the brink of change in Nazi-occupied France.

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An executive manager, his wife and his family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. A successful executive in industrial conglomerate, Philippe no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses. Yesterday they wanted a manager, today an enforcer. Now he must decide what his life really means.

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