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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream/ Suspense
Director: Florent-Emilio Siri
Year: 2002
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Something I like about French thrillers: more often than not, they don’t feel the need to spell everything out for you.
We meet Louis (Pascal Greggory), while he is reclining in his backyard in Strausberg, Germany, watching a creepy nature documentary on wasps and tarantulas. […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Fred Cavayé
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Point Blank AKA A Bout Portant is a thriller about absolutely nothing. By that I mean that there’s no sociopolitical or psychological subtext whatsoever. What you see is what you get.
That said, Point Blank is almost perfectly realized. Director Fred Cavayé […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Burma Conspiracy aka Largo Winch II is the second movie I’ve seen within the week to steal plot points from several movies. Let me see…there’s the use of insulin as a weapon and chocolate as an antidote from Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book, the subcutaneous […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Generally, I like my movies to be about something, to have something to say about the human condition. Here is the extent of the philosophical content of Largo Winch: “What life gave is one thing. What you do of it is another.” In other words, […]
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Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Guillaume Canet
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Tell No One is an update of a kind of thriller that isn’t really made anymore in the United States. And that’s a shame, because it’s great fun.
Pediatrician Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) has been mourning the murder of his wife for eight years […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama/ Comedy /Mainstream
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I should start by observing that L.627 is being marketed as a crime thriller, which it is certainly not. It is a police procedural, with the focus being on procedure.
“Lulu” Marguet (Didier Bezace) is a cop on the narcotics squad. He is more serious about […]
