This ain't Chaos, this is a mess.
I feel like I was tricked into watching the french equivalent of a Steven Seagal film. That's a bit harsh, but this film fails on many levels. Yes it does have a plot that gallops in large and easy strides, but in a way that most comic books these days would be ashamed.
A key problem with this film is the "bad man" factor. Yes men can be turned into idiots by beautiful women, but realistically men do idiotic things rather then turn into complete idiots. A big distinction I feel, and I don't just play a flawed man on TV...
In its plot leaps, the film does hurdle some interesting topics. A juxtaposition of prostitution and arranged marriages. A look into the life of Algerians in France.The sweet crush of a youth versus the sour lusting of his father...for the same woman (now *that* had a faint whiff of French frisson). Rolling a blind-eye, and power-rolling a car window, to violence on the streets.
But instead of taking one of these topics and really opening up the humanity and inhumanity clashing within it, the film is too busy making its rapid getaway from illumination towards an imitation of entertainment.
The only way I could give this even a 5/10 would be if Noemi had ended up inspecting her father's teeth the second time she meets him at the shipyard.
I feel like I was tricked into watching the french equivalent of a Steven Seagal film. That's a bit harsh, but this film fails on many levels. Yes it does have a plot that gallops in large and easy strides, but in a way that most comic books these days would be ashamed.
A key problem with this film is the "bad man" factor. Yes men can be turned into idiots by beautiful women, but realistically men do idiotic things rather then turn into complete idiots. A big distinction I feel, and I don't just play a flawed man on TV...
In its plot leaps, the film does hurdle some interesting topics. A juxtaposition of prostitution and arranged marriages. A look into the life of Algerians in France.The sweet crush of a youth versus the sour lusting of his father...for the same woman (now *that* had a faint whiff of French frisson). Rolling a blind-eye, and power-rolling a car window, to violence on the streets.
But instead of taking one of these topics and really opening up the humanity and inhumanity clashing within it, the film is too busy making its rapid getaway from illumination towards an imitation of entertainment.
The only way I could give this even a 5/10 would be if Noemi had ended up inspecting her father's teeth the second time she meets him at the shipyard.