The story: RIOTS EXPLODE in the suburbs of Paris when a young French man gets KILLED by the police. Friends and family demand to know which police officer killed their brother and they will riot until their demand is met.
This movie is one long BATTLE between French youth in the suburbs of Paris and the police. It's shot in a war style kind of way, with claustrophic scenes of contineous, intense FIGHTiNG inside and outside of crumbling, highrise appartment buildings in these poor French neighbourhoods.
The intensity of this story is FIERCE. It just doesnt light up. The acting performances are on STEROIDS, with a constant crazed drive in the eyes of the leading characters, who are out of control by RAGE because of the fact that their friend and brother got KILLED by the police.
The photography is a constant WAVE of rushes of ATTACKS through narrow streets and corridors, often filmed on the back of rioters, who are being followed in close up, while fireworks are constantly exploding all around them, which makes this movie even more intense. The sound score is as CLAUSTROPHOBIC and intense as the photography.
This movie has got the look and feel of a real live WAR documentary. It's contineous adrenaline RUSH is breathtaking.
I tried to find out if this story was actually based on real events, but I could not find any information about it in detail. I will add details later on if I find out more about this story...
What makes watching this movie so breathtakingly painful and worrisome is that many similar riots have occurred in France over the last 15 years. Suburban French youth, living in poverty, get to bear the burden of constant police control and harassment, which sometimes results in random deaths of which this movie is a SHIVERING tale...
This movie is one long BATTLE between French youth in the suburbs of Paris and the police. It's shot in a war style kind of way, with claustrophic scenes of contineous, intense FIGHTiNG inside and outside of crumbling, highrise appartment buildings in these poor French neighbourhoods.
The intensity of this story is FIERCE. It just doesnt light up. The acting performances are on STEROIDS, with a constant crazed drive in the eyes of the leading characters, who are out of control by RAGE because of the fact that their friend and brother got KILLED by the police.
The photography is a constant WAVE of rushes of ATTACKS through narrow streets and corridors, often filmed on the back of rioters, who are being followed in close up, while fireworks are constantly exploding all around them, which makes this movie even more intense. The sound score is as CLAUSTROPHOBIC and intense as the photography.
This movie has got the look and feel of a real live WAR documentary. It's contineous adrenaline RUSH is breathtaking.
I tried to find out if this story was actually based on real events, but I could not find any information about it in detail. I will add details later on if I find out more about this story...
What makes watching this movie so breathtakingly painful and worrisome is that many similar riots have occurred in France over the last 15 years. Suburban French youth, living in poverty, get to bear the burden of constant police control and harassment, which sometimes results in random deaths of which this movie is a SHIVERING tale...