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DVD Mea culpa
 Run time: 90 min Rating: 6.0 Genres: Action | Thriller Director: Fred Cavayé Writers: Fred Cavayé, Guillaume Lemans Stars: Vincent Lindon, Gilles Lellouche, Nadine Labaki |
| Storyline Cops Toulon, Simon and Frank celebrate the end of a mission. Back to home, they hit a car. Conclusion: Both victims, including a child. Franck is free. Simon, who was driving and alcohol, fate seriously injured. He will lose everything. His family life. His job as a cop. Six years later, divorced his wife Alice, Simon became a money belt and struggles to keep his role as father to his son Theo, who is now 9 years old. Franck, always a cop, remote stand on it. During a bullfight, the little Theo will be in spite of him witnessing a mafia settlement account. Very soon it will be threatened. Simon will do anything to protect her son and find his pursuers. The duet with Frank at the same time will be recomposed. But it will also be opportunity for them to return to the shadow areas of their common past. Written by Jiilo_Kim |
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| Plot Keywords: police, toulon, revelation, murder, killed by a train | |
| Details: Country: France Release Date: 5 February 2014 (France) |
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When I saw the trailer of Mea Culpa, I was really seduced. Vincent Lindon and Gilles Lellouche together in a thriller with real tough scenes, I jumped on this must see … and I wasn't disappointed at all.
And the movie begins very hard, and it goes on like this till the end : lot of twists and surprises all along the movie, with physical strength and action packed sequences. And noir destiny, very noir.
Believe it, editing and cinematography serve effectively each scene, and you are always surprised. A constant pleasure. And a very smart ending.
Vincent Lindon and Gilles Lellouche are stunning, I just loved their magnetic friendship. They are the main characters really developed.
There are some relevant references to classic movies masterpieces, which make want to see again Framed directed by Phil Karlson, same kind of fights.
I'm waiting for the next Fred Cavayé.
I already know that Fred Cavayé is a great action film director, the best french one after Florent Emilio Siri.
The reading of this feature topic scared me. I have still in mind the lousy script of his first film: POUR ELLE, predictable at the most, with a totally unbelievable tale. His second movie: A BOUT PORTANT was far better.
Back to this one, OK, it is full of clichés, but the many action sequences are powerful, fast paced, thrilling, at first rate riveting for the audience. As usual with Cavayé. Vincent Lindon is not vrey often seen in this kind of action flick, but rather in dramas. I like that. He is pretty good.
But there is a totally unbelievable scene – I'd better say some sequences – concerning the armored truck company – where Lindon's character works – that should have remained on the cutting room floor. How the hell a security guard – Lindon – can go to his company after hours, take some guns (automatic ones, armored truck companies in France never use automatic pistols) from the armored locked room, meet some of his colleagues in the locker room? AFTER HOURS !!! Just non sense?
Fred Cavayé must have been drunk !!!
The ending is very surprising, in the line of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE….I am not joking…
From an Olivier Marchal story.