Police: Virginie Efira and Omar Sy under pressure (critic)
Three cops in the face of a case of consciousness. A film under tension.
France 3 will rebroadcast on this Monday evening, Policefrom Anne Fontaine, released in August 2020. First advises you, despite reservations on its very end. Here is our criticism.
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Of Dry cleaning has White by the way Coco before Chanel Or Gemma BoveryAnne Fontaine has always taken care to never repeat herself. By adapting Hugo Boris’s novel, she plunges into two hot topics: the police – in the image damaged by recent violence – and illegal immigration.
His story focuses on three Parisian cops forced to accept a mission out of their skills: the renewal of a foreigner at Roissy airport so that it is expelled. Three cops in the grip of intimate conflicts (abortion, couple crises, alcoholism) which will find themselves faced with a case of conscience when they realize that if this clandestine returns to his country, he is condemned to death. Should we let him escape even if it means incurring serious sanctions?
After an artificial implementation – the idea of following the same starting point seen by the three characters to present them – this story almost circumscribed in a night managed to create an increasingly stifling tension without ever forcing the line. Anne Fontaine testifies to her casting sense by bringing together three actors from different families on the screen – Virginie Efira, Grégory Gadebois and Omar Sy – without it ever appearing artificial. In short, it is by his outfit and his faith in the strength of his subject that Police Convince. Too bad it ends by showing the day after and the return to their daily lives of the three protagonists in unnecessarily didactic scenes. This upset unit of time contradicts the very logic of the film.
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