Captain Sara Bellaiche, from Toulouse Judiciary Police branch, is investigating a go-fast linked to the murder of two teenagers, an investigation led by Richard Cross, from the Paris Criminal Brigade. Forced to collaborate in order to find the murderer and stop the bloody go-fast, Sara and Richard are both thrown in a breathless race against the clock on the roads of Spain and France.
Direction
Marchal's kinetic staging of the highway sequences
Acting
Essaidi and Bouab's crackling antagonistic chemistry
Practical Effects
Real car destruction, not CGI tire-screech fakery
Director
Olivier Marchal
Sofia Essaïdi
Sara Bellaïche
Assaad Bouab
Richard Cross
Alberto Ammann
Eduardo Gracia
Nicolas Cazalé
Reynal
Nassim Lyes
Saïd Masriche
Naïma Rodric
Vanessa Sanchez
Kool Shen
Bob Fontana
Moussa Mansaly
Franck Darcheville
Simon Abkarian
Daniel Prat
Zoé Marchal
Lucie Di Marco
Kenza Fortas
Leila Hamoudni
Francis Renaud
Willy De Berg
Salem Kali
Tortured Moroccan
Daniel Girondeaud
Police officer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Olivier Marchal is a former police officer who served in the French Gendarmerie before pivoting to cinema.
The film exemplifies the 'polar' tradition in French cinema — crime thrillers that interrogate institutional rot while delivering genre satisfactions.
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