For the needs of her new film as director, Mélanie Laurent fictionalized a few scenes, of course, moving from the Spanish border to the Italian one of the arrests of the gentleman robber. But, for the most part, the story she tells us is really that of this face of an angel, of this king of escapes whose last one was fatal to him.
It has to shine
With great elegance (like that of her hero), the director recreates the dawn of the crazy 80s, those during which the robber will multiply his stunts. There is little mention of his past as a legionnaire: it is the period of burglaries that interests Mélanie Laurent. This is where it blazes, where it shines, where it flirts with danger. On an impeccable soundtrack, his camera caresses the actors, capturing a look blurred by cigarette smoke, a shiver on the back of their neck. In a long, very polished sequence, on The mills of my heart in the English version, the image winds, again and again, while Sulak's hands grab the Cartier watches.
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These staging effects, while they are often very successful, also sometimes make you dizzy. Or when too many effects kill the effect.
Alongside Lucas Bravo, the actress/director has brought together a formidable cast, starting with Yvan Attal, who plays with great humanity Commissioner Georges Moréas, who will forge very special bonds with Sulak. The crook will often call him and play cat and mouse with him. In 1985, a few months after Sulak's death, Moréas resigned from his position to become a writer and screenwriter.
And then there is Anne, Sulak's great love, who takes the form of the very beautiful Léa Luce Busato, Patrick, the shaky accomplice who comes to sow discord (David Murgia) or even Steve (Rasha Bukvic), who will pay his life his loyalty to his friend Bruno.
However, we will regret a slightly botched ending: when the machine goes into overdrive, in just a few minutes, the hero's fate is sealed and even if the scene of the fatal fall is nicely poetic, we would have liked it to have been less brutal .
- Libreby Mélanie Laurent Scenario by Mélanie Laurent and Christophe Deslandes. With Lucas Bravo, Léa Luce Busato, Yvan Attal, David Murgia… Prime Video 1 h 49.
