A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.
Acting
Richard Berry's exhausted charisma carries every scene.
Direction
Rome finds poetry in fluorescent-lit police stations.
Director
Claude-Michel Rome
Richard Berry
Drieu
Aïssa Maïga
Kathia
Zabou Breitman
Commissaire Vasseur
Pascal Elbé
Jean-Ba
Bernard Blancan
Pierre Wazemme
Guilaine Londez
Mireille
Moussa Maaskri
Manu
Frédéric Saurel
Rémy Andréani
Gérald Laroche
Abel Vargas
Jean-Louis Loca
Raphaël Farge
Aure Atika
Marianne
Arben Bajraktaraj
Marinescu
Mostefa Djadjam
Françoise Cadol
La voix d'Hélène
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Berry was 59 during filming and did most of his own driving stunts, insisting the character's physical recklessness came from exhaustion, not action-hero energy.
The film captures a specific post-2005 French anxiety: provincial towns abandoned by centralized policing, where local gangs fill the vacuum. It's basically a western in decaying industrial zones.
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