Pour twelfth film behind the camera (Thieves, The Fools' Ball, Dive, Breathe), Mélanie Laurent tells – with her co-writer Christophe Deslandes – the true and tumultuous story of a flamboyant robber: Bruno Sulak, public enemy of the French police in the 1980s. Less known than Jacques Mesrine, he hit the headlines for these spectacular robberies in supermarkets and jewelry stores, without hatred or violence.
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A sort of Arsène Lupine actively sought out by commissioner George Moréas, a non-conformist character who spends his time tracking him, without much success, and ends up maintaining a sort of complicity with him. Among the many spectacular coups of this paratrooper who joined the Foreign Legion at the age of 20: the burglary of the Cartier jewelry store in Cannes, which he carried out in tennis attire, with bag and racket, with the complicity of Novica Zivkovic, alias Radisa “Steve » Jovanic.
A robber far from the standards
Freely inspired by Philippe Jaenada's bookWetland (2013), Mélanie Laurent does not hide her empathy for this gangster like no other, of whom she makes a hero with a big heart, in love with his partner Tanie, and who dreams of spending happy days with her under the Mediterranean sun. He won't have time.
He is a rebel with a simple life, charismatic and elegant, far from the frightening figure of the traditional robber: tall, sporty, blue eyes, a devastating smile and endowed with good manners. The supermarket cashiers he robs are still under his spell. “He had eyes like you never forget, a handsome, very polite boy, very well-made,” they admit, still moved, in the film, during their statement to the police.
“Make a male film”
The filmmaker entrusted the main role to a handsome guy, Lucas Bravo, the seductive Gabriel of the series Emily in Parisalongside Léa Luce Busato, an actress from the theater. Commissioner Moréas has the traits of Yvan Attal, perfect in his role as an old-fashioned cop, accustomed to organized crime but a little overwhelmed by the unconventional methods of Bruno Sulak.
Very enthusiastic about the idea of ”making a masculine film”, far from the codes of criminal films where, according to her, “guys stay among guys”, the director slipped in a great love story between Sulak and Tanie by following their permanent run with a camera on their shoulder. What makes Libre a romantic thriller which oscillates between the action film and the sentimental melodrama, without really choosing one or the other, even if it means getting lost a little along the way. In fact, Mélanie Laurent is more interested in romance than in the tracking down of Sulak by Commissioner Moréas, who is often fooled by his target.
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Superimposed on this incredible game of cat and mouse, often predictable and sometimes not very credible, is the wildly romantic story of a short-lived couple which ends in tragedy: the brutal death of Sulak during an escape attempt. from Fleury-Mérogis prison. He was 29 years old. What remains is a beautiful thwarted love story between a charming thug and his partner who quickly finds herself alone.
Librethe 1is November, on Amazon Prime Video.
