Borgo: a brilliant prison thriller (critic)

Hafsia Herzi, masterful, camps a maton trapped by her links with the Corsican environment, in front of the camera always inspired by Stéphane Demoustier.

Canal + will offer a great film tonight: Borgoby Stéphane Demoustier. First advise you:

Five years later His remarkable trial film The girl with a braceletalas gone too unnoticed (despite his appointment to the César for best adaptation), Stéphane Demoustier decided to go through the prison box. And for that, he heads for Corsica with a heroine a penitentiary supervisor (Hafsia Herzi, once again impressive in the wake of her appointment to César 2024 for Rapture) just named in an establishment with a diet open on the island of beauty and which goes, over the meetings which she makes with various prisoners inside and outside the walls, flirt more and more dangerously with the middle local banditry.

Here we find everything that made the success of The girl with a bracelet : A story (inspired by real facts) documented with care but which gives pride of place to the romantic. Making a spell with usual clichés on Corsica, Stéphane Demoustier signs a film with a deaf tension where he constantly makes credible and engaging the slow descent into hell of this maton, little by little exceeded by the services increasingly important than We ask him. And this thanks to a perfect management of the duration where the two hours in which his intrigue unfolds in no downtime without ever giving in to the slightest precipitation. But also and above all to a daring scenario, playing both with the views of the situation and the temporality of the actions, in a gesture of impressive fluidity. The best film of its author.

Trailer:

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