We wonder how far he will go. After the dehumanization of child soldiers in 2008 (
Johnny Mad Dog
) and the survival of an English boxer in a Thai prison in 2017 (
A Prayer Before Dawn
), Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire continues to take stock of the violence the most extreme. But this time, after Africa and Asia, he didn't have to go very far to try it again. With
Black Flies
, this French director, former assistant to Cyril Collard and Gaspar Noé, plunges into the dark depths of New York, his adopted city. They are not indicated in tourist guides or in Woody Allen films. To get there, you have to follow the ambulances of emergency nurses, driving with sirens blaring and flashing lights on in the night, like in Martin Scorsese's
Open Tomb
.
On board one of them, Gene Rutkovsky (Sean Penn), a battered old veteran, haunted by what he went through on September 11, and Ollie Cross (Tye…
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