This 1997 policier, directed by Jan Kounen, pulses with violent energy, although its pop-video aesthetic looks dated
Very over the top, extremely brutal and as French as a Johnny Hallyday calendar – here’s a rerelease for the gonzo crime thriller from 1997, directed by Jan Kounen and adapted from the pulp policier series by Joël Houssin. The hyperactive pop video aesthetic has dated a bit, and the crash zooms and the extreme close-ups are tiring, but there’s no doubting the ultraviolent, ultratasteless energy of it all: the movie gives the finger to all those arthouse wimps who might be thinking about wrinkling their noses and objecting to this film.
Romain Duris plays a gangster who takes a shit in the street and actually wipes his arse with a page from the esteemed film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma A lithe young Vincent Cassel plays Dobermann, a fearless bank robber who takes down...
Very over the top, extremely brutal and as French as a Johnny Hallyday calendar – here’s a rerelease for the gonzo crime thriller from 1997, directed by Jan Kounen and adapted from the pulp policier series by Joël Houssin. The hyperactive pop video aesthetic has dated a bit, and the crash zooms and the extreme close-ups are tiring, but there’s no doubting the ultraviolent, ultratasteless energy of it all: the movie gives the finger to all those arthouse wimps who might be thinking about wrinkling their noses and objecting to this film.
Romain Duris plays a gangster who takes a shit in the street and actually wipes his arse with a page from the esteemed film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma A lithe young Vincent Cassel plays Dobermann, a fearless bank robber who takes down...
- 5/11/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
My first introduction to Vincent Cassell was in 1997 when I saw him in Mathieu Kassovitz brilliant and controversial black and white French film La Haine, one of my ten favorite films of all time. That same year I decided to also check out Jan Kounen’s Doberman which also starred the famous French actor. These two films served as my gateway to contemporary French cinema. Doberman (based on a series of novels by Joël Houssin), was fantastic, an over the top, highly stylish but extremely entertaining heist film following the criminal known as Dobermann (Vincent Cassel), who leads a gang of brutal robbers with his beautiful, deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci).
Now fourteen years later, Screen Daily reports that the star is in talks for a sequel to the crime flick, with Marco Polo Productions and Acteurs Auteurs Associés (also behind the international heist flick Sleight of Hand)backing the movie.
Now fourteen years later, Screen Daily reports that the star is in talks for a sequel to the crime flick, with Marco Polo Productions and Acteurs Auteurs Associés (also behind the international heist flick Sleight of Hand)backing the movie.
- 5/24/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Dobermann
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Tchéky Karyo, Monica Bellucci | Written by Joël Houssin | Directed by Jan Kounen
In 2008, Vincent Cassel starred in the Mesrine double bill, portraying the eponymous and legendary French criminal. Cassel inhabited his role and his stunning performance was one of the cinematic highlights of that year. In Dobermann, Cassel portrayed another French criminal, albeit a fictitious one. Released eleven years before Mesrine, Dobermann sees Cassel play the once again titular character, a resourceful and dangerous criminal, who was gifted with his first gun at his Christening. Together with his deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy and his motley crew of felons, Dobermann plans a daring bank robbery and the film follows the heist and the aftermath as sociopathic policeman Christini hunts down the gang.
If Mesrine was a detailed painting of a character by Cassel, Dobermann is an outrageous caricature. The film too, is stylistically garish, characters are paper thin,...
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Tchéky Karyo, Monica Bellucci | Written by Joël Houssin | Directed by Jan Kounen
In 2008, Vincent Cassel starred in the Mesrine double bill, portraying the eponymous and legendary French criminal. Cassel inhabited his role and his stunning performance was one of the cinematic highlights of that year. In Dobermann, Cassel portrayed another French criminal, albeit a fictitious one. Released eleven years before Mesrine, Dobermann sees Cassel play the once again titular character, a resourceful and dangerous criminal, who was gifted with his first gun at his Christening. Together with his deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy and his motley crew of felons, Dobermann plans a daring bank robbery and the film follows the heist and the aftermath as sociopathic policeman Christini hunts down the gang.
If Mesrine was a detailed painting of a character by Cassel, Dobermann is an outrageous caricature. The film too, is stylistically garish, characters are paper thin,...
- 4/15/2011
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
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