Overqualified and undervalued, Rita is a lawyer at a large firm that is more interested in getting criminals off the hook than bringing them to justice.
One day, she is given an unexpected way out, when cartel leader Manitas hires her to help him withdraw from his business and realize a plan he has been secretly preparing for years: to become the woman he has always dreamt of being.

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Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn’t a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators.

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The young teacher Camille becomes rommmates with the fun-loving Émilie. Although the two have no romantic feelings for each other, they live out their mutual physical attraction – with regular and uncomplicated abandon. When Camille meets the 30-year-old student Nora, his interest in her is also piqued. Everyone wants non-commitment – but how long can you keep your feelings out? Master director Jacques Audiard uses dynamic black-and-white imagery to bring to life the inner world of a young and volatile generation living in France’s multicultural big city.

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Jacques Audiard made his directorial debut in a spectacular fashion with Regarde les hommes tomber, one of the most visually striking and disturbing French thrillers of the 1990s. The son of the acclaimed French screenwriter Michel Audiard, he had scripted several films (going back to the mid-1970s) before he gravitated to the role of director and pretty well redefined the French film noir with this and his subsequent thriller offerings – Sur mes lèvres (2001), De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (2005) and, of course, the stunning Un prophète (2009). Those aspects which most characterise Audiard’s distinctive brand of cinema – the nihilistic bleakness, the fragmented narrative, the assortment of fragile outcasts living on the abyss – are present in his first film, an idiosyncratic study in solitude and friendship.

To date, all of Jacques Audiard’s forays into film noir territory have been grim existentialist portraits of social misfits desperately searching for identity in a world that is almost totally lacking in purpose and compassion. Regarde les hommes tomber follows the same pattern, skilfully weaving together the stories of three disparate characters who are each on the same quest, to find meaning in their empty, loveless lives. The film’s disjointed feel serves to evoke the fragmented consciousness of these pathetic individuals, souls lost in a sea of abject despair, whilst the visual composition, dominated by threatening blocks of shadow, makes them resemble candles that are on the point of being snuffed out. The two older characters, Simon and Marx, are virtually equivalent, embittered and solitary men who, well into middle-age, have allowed themselves to be driven to the margins of society, despite their obvious need for status and companionship. Regarde les hommes tomber may employ many of the trappings of the French polar, but it is actually less a conventional thriller and more a twisted fairy tale, one with some very sinister and murky undertones.

Whilst he is clearly influenced by film noir thrillers, particularly French policiers, of the past, Audiard succeeds in imposing his own mark on a tried and tested formula, and delivers a film that is both stylistically brilliant and rich in complexity. Regarde les hommes tomber may not be as sharply focussed nor as devastatingly slick as Audiard’s subsequent films but it is nonetheless an intensely fascinating piece of cinema, an excursion into the darker places of the human soul that undulates unpredictably between black comedy and brutally vicious thriller-drama whilst telling a story, one man’s search for meaning in a desolate universe, that is as compassionate as it is unremittingly bleak.

What makes this film so particularly enthralling are the spellbinding contributions from the three lead actors, a cast line-up that sees the one and only screen pairing of two legends of French cinema, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jean Yanne. So vividly do Trintignant and Yanne convey the inner torment of hopeless wretches lost in a loveless and seemingly pointless cosmos that the spectator is compelled to sympathise with them, in spite of their characters’ obvious shortcomings. In contrast to Yanne, who is so accustomed to playing le vieux con that you can hardly imagine him in any other role, Trintignant is cast against type, for once playing a rough, thoroughly cynical individual who has none of the actor’s habitual romantic charm and elegance. So well do Yanne and Trintignant complement one another (each looking like a distorted reflection of the other) that you can hardly believe that no other director ever thought to bring them together before.

The third member of the film’s triumvirate of acting talent is Mathieu Kassovitz, the boy wonder who went on to direct La Haine (1995), one of the finest and most talked about French films of the 1990s. Not only is Kassovitz an inspired filmmaker, he is also a very capable actor, as he demonstrates here with his harrowingly believable portrayal of a mentally handicapped youngster with severe learning and emotional difficulties. The sublime innocence of Kassovitz’s character makes a stark contrast with the cruel venality of the world he inhabits, making him tragically vulnerable to the forces of corruption which will transform him into a conscienceless killer. Mathieu Kassovitz won a César in 1995 for his remarkable performance in this film (in the Most Promising Actor category). The film also won Césars in the Best Editing and Best First Work categories, marking an auspicious debut for a filmmaker who, like his father, would leave an indelible impression on French cinema. Welcome to the world of Jacques Audiard, a dark and tormented place which, for many, will prove to have an irresistible allure.

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Based on Craig Davidson’s short story collection of the same name, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone (De rouille et d’os, 2012) is a tender, yet visceral piece about the nature of being human. Starring Marion Cotillard as young amputee Stéphanie, and Matthias Schoenaerts as troubled single father Ali, Audiard’s latest may boast incredibly moving performances, but never quite grants us the ability to truly get under the main protagonists’ skin. After returning orca trainer Stéphanie home following a nightclub brawl, burly bouncer Ali finds himself once again aiding the woman – four months after she suffers a terrible accident.

Although not initially dependent on him, Stéphanie’s urgent need to have life pumped back into her veins results in an unconventional relationship that sees Ali never quite grasping the emotional crutch he has become. Ironically, the man who saves her from another man’s fists turns to fighting to earn his keep, regretfully stealing time from the fascinating, slow nature of Stéphanie’s healing process.

All one-night stands and shoplifting, Schoenaerts’ single dad Ali is difficult to root for, especially when a very important final plot point is rushed through far too quickly to invoke any true pathos. The illicit affairs he gets into repeatedly damage and betray those he loves, and it is only his paradoxical caring of Stéphanie that gives him any remotely redeeming feature. Thankfully, Stéphanie’s disability is refreshingly embraced throughout, with her strong sexual identity no source of embarrassment during intimate scenes. Where dancing was once the foundation of liberation, Stéphanie’s old stomping ground is now a prison that results in a raw outburst of entrenched anger on an unsuspecting punter.

With Cotillard’s range at its most impressive during the heartbreaking reveal of her amputated legs, you never once question the authenticity of her newfound situation. Concentrating far more on emotional healing and progression than the road to physical recovery, time is spent living in the moment as opposed to wallowing in hospital, with a rapturous scene reliving her orca training to Katy Perry’s Firework guaranteeing you’ll never hear the song in the same way.

Stunningly shot by Stéphane Fontaine, water falling from the backs of orcas and slow motion shots of Ali’s blood and sweat during bare-knuckle fist fights may serve as a constant reminder that we are all animal, but it is the tear inducing shot of Stéphanie standing nose to nose with an orca that will serve to haunt long after the credits. Though not quite of the same calibre as Audiard’s previous outing, the superb A Prophet ( Un prophète, 2009), Rust and Bone remains watchable, well-acted neo-melodrama.

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Malik El Djebena is just 19 when he is sent to prison for six years. Immediately, he falls in with a group of Corsican prisoners who rule the roost. From his experiences with these hardened criminals, Malik learns some invaluable lessons and sets about building his own network…

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Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, real estate deals. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life. His piano teacher is a Chinese piano virtuoso who has recently come to live in France. She doesn’t speak a lick of French so music becomes the only language they have in common. Before long, Jacques’ bid to be a better person means that he begins to yearn for true love. But, when he finally has the chance of winning his best friend’s wife, his passion only succeeds in scaring her. And then, one day, his dubious past comes to light…

	
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