“Those who assume classical musicians are sissies may have to adjust their thinking after Tomorrow At Dawn, in which classical music meets historical battle re-enactments to excellent effect…

The film starts involvingly with a cluster of men in late 18th century military attire preparing for a swordfight in a misty field. The effort expended by the two adversaries, punctuated by the clang of metal, is thrilling. One opponent draws blood. Cut to a contemporary setting in which concert pianist and composer Mathieu (Vincent Perez) is giving a piano lesson in the tasteful salon of the apartment he shares with his wife and young son. After the lesson, he drives to the suburban Paris house where his seriously ailing mother (Françoise Lebrun) lives with Mathieu’s younger brother Paul (Jérémie Renier). She will soon leave for a long hospital stay and knows Paul’s emotional stability depends on Mathieu’s support in her absence. Paul works in a warehouse but devotes all his spare time to a clandestine battle re-enactment group centred on two regiments of Emperor Napoleon’s forces. To say that participants are deadly serious about dressing up and pointing vintage weapons at each other while speaking in the ultra-formal language of a bygone France would be an understatement…

Straightforward but effective widescreen filming and editing keep several emotional layers percolating simultaneously. Dercourt doles out information in gradual doses, toggling back and forth between the demands of the Napoleonic Wars and the obligations of everyday life, until the two are intertwined on a level that demands action… As with Dercourt’s five previous features, the musical score is perfectly chosen and smartly applied.” – Screen Daily

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Review from The New York Times, published October 2, 2009
Mike Hale wrote:
“Intimate Enemies” is a movie you’ve seen before, when it was set on the Apache reservation or in the Vietnamese jungle. This time the naïve lieutenant, the jaded sergeant, the suicidal mission with no purpose — all the components of the restless-natives combat movie — are applied to the war in Algeria in the late 1950s.

Florent Emilio Siri, an action specialist whose previous credits include the Bruce Willis vehicle “Hostage” and a Tom Clancy video game, knows how to stage and frame a battle, and for about an hour “Intimate Enemies” is taut and satisfying. A new officer, Terrien (Benoît Magimel), takes over a French and Algerian platoon posted near the “forbidden zone.” Patrols are sent out and ambushed, villages are torched, and rebel prisoners are tortured. The Algerian soldiers (who could be the troops from Rachid Bouchareb’s 2006 World War II film “Indigènes,” 15 years older) agonize over their loyalties. The random death and drunken camaraderie are beautifully photographed, in the Moroccan mountains, by Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci.

The movie goes flat, though, when Mr. Siri and his co-writer, Patrick Rotman, shift their attention from the action to the moral math of guerrilla warfare. While they don’t take sides, they can’t resist turning the increasingly unhinged Terrien and his sergeant, Dougnac (Albert Dupontel), into metaphors, which turns the movie into something all too familiar.

INTIMATE ENEMIES

Opens on Friday in Manhattan.

Co-written and directed by Florent Emilio Siri; written by Patrick Rotman; director of photography, Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci; edited by Olivier Gajan and Christophe Danilo; music by Alexandre Desplat; production designer, William Abello; produced by François Kraus and Denis Pineau-Valencienne; released by Outsider Pictures. At the Village East, Second Avenue, at 12th Street, East Village. In French, with English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: Benoît Magimel (Terrien), Albert Dupontel (Dougnac), Aurélien Recoing (Vesoul), Marc Barbé (Berthaut), Eric Savin (Sergeant Tortionnaire), Fellag (the Prisoner), Vincent Rottiers (Lefranc), Lounès Tazaïrt (Said) and Abdelhafid Metalsi (Rachid).

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An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.

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Language(s):French
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