Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.
Direction
Avary's debut: single-location tension plus hallucinatory drug sequences
Acting
Jean-Hugues Anglade's Eric: charismatic, terrifying, pitiful junkie king
Score
Tomandandy's industrial jazz fusion — anxiety as music
Director
Roger Avary
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roger Avary wrote Pulp Fiction's 'Gold Watch' sequence; Tarantino produced this as payback. The friends' feud over credits lasted decades.
Shot in an actual closed Paris bank during the 1992 riots — the real social tension bleeds into every frame.
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