Marseille ragtime I like the twisted plot of this tape with constant changes of accents. Due to the constant change of characters, the leading plots regularly change. And the story itself is radically reversed. . .
Click... Jean Rochefort walks with his partner in Africa. Several shots. Crime and betrayal. All this refers to the “Pay for Fear” and the “Wizard”.
Click... Gerard Depardieu. He is recovering and is about to return to Marseille. He's thinking about the place and it's hard to blame him. They did him too mean. . .
Click... Revenge is already losing its relevance. Now we find ourselves in social cinema. The focus is on the child - Hakeem Ghanem. Despite his age, he is now in charge of the family, as his older brother is dead.
His leadership is not limited to formalities. He makes decisions and engages in difficult criminal fishing - pimping.
It is shocking, but the mobility and vitality of the character cannot but fascinate. . .
Click... All eyes on his sister now. She's a hotel maid and more. Souad Amidou quite plausibly copes with the acting task. But it seems to me that she lacks confidence.
Click... And now the look again touches Uncle Bernard (Gerard Depardieu). We learn some of his personal secrets and begin to understand the reason for his actions. . .
From a crime thriller, we are transported to social cinema, and then to melodrama. From Africa we find ourselves in Marseille and then briefly in Algeria.
This polyphony significantly complicates psychologically quite unpretentious story. Each character gets its development. They all live on the screen, intrigue, hide something, interact, which makes the picture interesting.
Of the shortcomings, I would single out excessive moralizing in the final. And it remains only to repeat that Souad Amidou could more confidently fulfill the given role.
But in general, the tape takes the viewer into his special world. Is it not enough if the director created a kind of world before us?
7 out of 10