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French crime thriller starring Jean Yanne and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Simon Hirsch (Yanne) is a bored, 50-something salesman whose life changes when his best friend, undercover cop Mickey (Yvon Back), ends up in a coma after being shot during a stakeout. Leaving his dead-end job and his wife behind him, Simon now sets out on a crusade for revenge on the would-be killers. Meanwhile, in a convergent story set some time earlier, unlucky-in-cards gambler and drifter Marx (Trintignant) instructs unworldly youth Johnny (Mathieu Kassovitz) in the ways of gangland life.
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Format:DVD
Jacques Audiard's directorial debut See How They Fall aka Regarde les Hommes Tomber is our old friend, the film with two different stories that gradually converge and turn out to be the same story after all, simply told from different sides. It's a shaggy dog story, with Matthieu Kassovitz's simpleton following unlucky-in-cards drifter Jean Louis Trintignant with mutt-like devotion that even stretches to killing for him when he's asked to repay his gambling debts in kind. Meanwhile, in a slightly different timeframe, Jean Yanne's over-the-hill travelling salesman becomes increasingly obsessed with finding the hitman who put his cop friend into a brain-dead coma, his life, income and relationships gradually stripped away as he gets closer to his prey. Yet while it may offer the perfect setup for a modern-day neo noir, the film is often more surprisingly playful, more interested in quirks of character and a slightly skewed sense of humor (aptly served by the occasional ironic captions and Alexandre Desplat's half-jaunty, half-discordant score) than the traditional thriller set pieces and plot mechanics. Unfortunately the film is ill-served by one of the worst Region 1 NTSC DVDs released in recent years: the picture quality on Synkronized's disc is so poor at times you keep on expecting to see the audience's heads in front of the picture like a pirate disc. No extras. No surprise.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By K. Gordon
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Format:DVD
While it doesn't all `work', this is a more interesting partial failure than most
film-makers's complete successes.
An oddball mix of thriller, character study and very quirky comedy. It follows
two parallel stories that finally intersect; a) The unlikely, ultimately homo-erotic
friendship between a small time con-man/drifter (Jean-Louis Trintignant), and
the semi-retarded wanderer he meets on the road (Mathieu Kassovitz), and
b) a man's mid-life crisis when his cop friend is shot and left brain dead, leading
him to give up everything, work, marriage, to try and find meaning in his life by
finding the killers.
There are leaps of logic, but some very nice character moments as well. I liked it even
better on 2nd viewing.
film-makers's complete successes.
An oddball mix of thriller, character study and very quirky comedy. It follows
two parallel stories that finally intersect; a) The unlikely, ultimately homo-erotic
friendship between a small time con-man/drifter (Jean-Louis Trintignant), and
the semi-retarded wanderer he meets on the road (Mathieu Kassovitz), and
b) a man's mid-life crisis when his cop friend is shot and left brain dead, leading
him to give up everything, work, marriage, to try and find meaning in his life by
finding the killers.
There are leaps of logic, but some very nice character moments as well. I liked it even
better on 2nd viewing.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Jacques Audiard's directorial debut See How They Fall aka Regarde les Hommes Tomber is our old friend, the film with two different stories that gradually converge and turn out to be the same story after all, simply told from different sides. It's a shaggy dog story, with Matthieu Kassovitz's simpleton following unlucky-in-cards drifter Jean Louis Trintignant with mutt-like devotion that even stretches to killing for him when he's asked to repay his gambling debts in kind. Meanwhile, in a slightly different timeframe, Jean Yanne's over-the-hill travelling salesman becomes increasingly obsessed with finding the hitman who put his cop friend into a brain-dead coma, his life, income and relationships gradually stripped away as he gets closer to his prey. Yet while it may offer the perfect setup for a modern-day neo noir, the film is often more surprisingly playful, more interested in quirks of character and a slightly skewed sense of humor (aptly served by the occasional ironic captions and Alexandre Desplat's half-jaunty, half-discordant score) than the traditional thriller set pieces and plot mechanics.
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