Police
, Anne Fontaine's new film, follows three police officers confronted with a case of conscience.
Virginie (Virginie Efira), Erik (Grégory Gadebois) and Aristide (Omar Sy) are forced to accept a mission: to escort a migrant of Tajik origin (Payman Maadi) to the border.
On the way to the airport, Virginie understands that the prisoner risks death if he returns to his country.
She then tries to convince her colleagues to let him escape.
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Le Figaro
salutes the "
successful mission
" of Anne Fontaine.
Police
"
offers a mix of
Rashomon
and
The Last Corvée".
“
There is Simenon.
We are close to the abysses of the human being
, writes Éric Neuhoff.
Grégory Gadebois is angry.
He strokes a horse, has the face of a baby who would have turned 50 suddenly.
Virginie Efira confirms that she surpasses her rivals with a good head.
In her eyes read a thousand regrets, a shattered existence, shame, all the sadness in the world - and that shard of light that turns her into French Gena Rowlands
”.
"
Human radiography
"
Ouest-France
salutes a film which, far from being confined to the police institution, takes on a universal scope.
“
The title may be misleading.
Yes, Virginie Efira, Omar Sy and Grégory Gadebois play police officers.
But, through an unusual mission for them, it is above all the story of three characters at the crossroads of their lives
”, estimates the daily.
Anne Fontaine thus signs “
a kind of human radiography worn by amazing actors, a false thriller but a real successful film
”.
Télérama
also salutes the director's aptitude to address everyone “
beyond the police
”.
“
His film reaches out to all difficult lives.
And there are many,
”writes the weekly.
"
Perfect casting
"
Within this
Police
team
, the recruitment of troops is apparently successful.
For
Le Monde
, “
the casting is perfect
”
.
"We
needed actors and an actress not only capable of producing light, even the weakened one of their disorderly souls, but physically capable of occupying a volume in this Kangoo where they confront their truth, their limits.
»Greeted Philippe Ridet.
He praises in particular the performance of Grégory Gadebois, which "
leaves the impression of a revelation
".
Seized by this "
stifling automobile closed-door
",
Le Journal Du Dimanche
"
forgets the respective pedigrees of the three actors, impeccable
".
Le Parisien
opts for the same adjective: "
Virginie Efira and Grégory Gadebois are impeccable and Omar Sy bluffing in this dramatic register
".
"
This drama which turns into a thriller suffers from a few lengths, but it is illuminated by a few moments of grace and carried by a formidable cast
", is it written by our colleagues.
A too tight uniform
Other titles, however, judge the film wrapped in a police uniform too skimpy.
The daily
Liberation
deplores the fact that "
Anne Fontaine's film is bogged down in a heavy narrative and imprisoned from the point of view
" of the police institution.
For
Les Inrockuptibles
,
Police
is "
starched by his good feelings and a fairly agreed treatment
".
The opinion of
Télérama
does not differ, which considers that Anne Fontaine "
loses her bite and gets stuck in a dramatic reality where she confuses chronicle of a tiring profession and insignificant anecdotes
".
For
La Croix
, Anne Fontaine struggles to account for the torments of the characters, and "
the filmmaker does not really know what to do with their moral questions
".
At the box office, Wednesday, September 2,
Police
in any case took the lead in the week's releases in Parisian cinemas, in front
of Sophie Letourneur's
comedy
Énorme
.
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