When police officer Ilias is shot and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her former identity as Badh, a ruthless intelligence operative and skilled assassin. She brutally eliminates members of the Khoury family one by one, unleashing the fury of their leader Mansour, only to discover that Mansour is working with Joana, her former secret service unit officer.
Acting
Marine Vacth's ice-cold transformation from civilian to predator
Editing
Tight 84-minute runtime wastes zero breath on exposition
Practical Effects
Grubby, grounded fight choreography that actually hurts to watch
Director
Guillaume de Fontenay
Marine Vacth
Badh Siracine
Emmanuelle Bercot
Joanna Walter
Grégoire Colin
Sam
Stanislas Merhar
Hadrien Tassigny
Niels Schneider
Alex
Salim Kéchiouche
Ilias Siracine
Samy Seghir
Kamal Khoury
Hichem Yacoubi
Reda
Slimane Dazi
Mansour Khoury
Alaa Safi
Malik
Lionel Abelanski
Le Français
Caroline Bourg
Journaliste
Delphine Lanniel
Assistante Joana Walter
Nathan Dellemme
Technicien DGRE
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of France's recent wave of female-led revenge thrillers (Revenge, Promising Young Woman's international cousins), but distinctly Gallic in its bureaucratic cynicism about state violence.
Director Guillaume de Fontenay shot this immediately after the pandemic-delayed Sympathy for the Devil—Marine Vacth's combat training was condensed into three weeks.
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