Inspired by Jacques Mesrine’s autobiographical book “L’Instinct de mort” – which he wrote in prison shortly before his magnificent final escape – Jean-François Richet’s fast-paced drama charts Mesrine’s rise from a wayward French soldier in Algeria to a bolder and bolder criminal on the streets of Paris. Mesrine’s outlaw odyssey even brought him to Canada, where he fell in with separatist radicals in Quebec. Thirty years after French police gunned him down in a spectacular shootout, his infamy lives on. Equal parts thriller and biopic, Mesrine remains faithful to its central character, a dynamic figure who is by no means a model protagonist.Read More »
Jean-François Richet
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Jean-François Richet – Mesrine Part 1: L’instinct de mort aka Killer Instinct (2008)
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Jean-François Richet – Mesrine Part 2: L’ennemi public n°1 aka Public Enemy No. 1 (2008)
Jean-François Richet2001-2010ActionCrimeFranceThe story of Jacques Mesrine, France’s public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. An evocation of the his life, which traces the colorful career of this gangster called “the man with the hundred faces”. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats – from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks – Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris. The second episode of the Mesrine legend.Read More »
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Jean-François Richet – Ma 6-T va crack-er AKA Crack 6-T (1997)
1991-2000DramaFranceJean-François RichetPoliticsWikipedia wrote:
The story is set in a cité (6-T in French slang), or housing project, in the Parisian suburb of Meaux. The residents are unhappy about their living conditions, and are rebelling against this. Some critics compare it to the film La Haine, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and starring Vincent Cassel, as well as to Le Cercle de la haine. […]
Richet explicitly made in an interview references to marxism-leninism as his ideology to produce this movie.Read More »