Dobermann (1997)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/col 103m
Director: Jan Kounen
Cast: Tchéky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Chick Ortega, Antoine Basler
Synopsis:
A gang of hoodlums led by the eponymous public enemy number one stage a succession of holdups, foiling their police pursuers, but end up cornered in a grungy nightclub by their dirty cop nemesis.
Review:
What happens when films get made by people brought up on pop promos and pornography; one can see influences from Luc Besson to Alex de la Iglesias but essentially this is cynical genre filmmaking à la From Dusk Till Dawn, with far less attention to character. Wearing its foulmouthed, misogynist and homophobic dialogue like some juvenile provocation of those too staid to be able to take it, it perhaps foreshadowed a tendency in French films of the late nineties to shock rather than engage imaginatively with issues (aka 'épater le bourgeois'). Rather like watching gladiatorial combat: morally the antagonists are indistinguishable (though the makers clearly wish us to side with the criminals).
Country: FR
Technical: bw/col 103m
Director: Jan Kounen
Cast: Tchéky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Chick Ortega, Antoine Basler
Synopsis:
A gang of hoodlums led by the eponymous public enemy number one stage a succession of holdups, foiling their police pursuers, but end up cornered in a grungy nightclub by their dirty cop nemesis.
Review:
What happens when films get made by people brought up on pop promos and pornography; one can see influences from Luc Besson to Alex de la Iglesias but essentially this is cynical genre filmmaking à la From Dusk Till Dawn, with far less attention to character. Wearing its foulmouthed, misogynist and homophobic dialogue like some juvenile provocation of those too staid to be able to take it, it perhaps foreshadowed a tendency in French films of the late nineties to shock rather than engage imaginatively with issues (aka 'épater le bourgeois'). Rather like watching gladiatorial combat: morally the antagonists are indistinguishable (though the makers clearly wish us to side with the criminals).
Country: FR
Technical: bw/col 103m
Director: Jan Kounen
Cast: Tchéky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Chick Ortega, Antoine Basler
Synopsis:
A gang of hoodlums led by the eponymous public enemy number one stage a succession of holdups, foiling their police pursuers, but end up cornered in a grungy nightclub by their dirty cop nemesis.
Review:
What happens when films get made by people brought up on pop promos and pornography; one can see influences from Luc Besson to Alex de la Iglesias but essentially this is cynical genre filmmaking à la From Dusk Till Dawn, with far less attention to character. Wearing its foulmouthed, misogynist and homophobic dialogue like some juvenile provocation of those too staid to be able to take it, it perhaps foreshadowed a tendency in French films of the late nineties to shock rather than engage imaginatively with issues (aka 'épater le bourgeois'). Rather like watching gladiatorial combat: morally the antagonists are indistinguishable (though the makers clearly wish us to side with the criminals).