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Polisse (2012)

May. 18,2012
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7.3
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NR
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Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically document the daily routine of the team.

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Lovesusti
2012/05/18

The Worst Film Ever

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Nonureva
2012/05/19

Really Surprised!

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ShangLuda
2012/05/20

Admirable film.

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Mathilde the Guild
2012/05/21

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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Laurinette
2012/05/22

This vivid movie is deeply touching. We taste all the range of emotions : disgust, anguish, laughter ("Eh... I lost my phone !").All the actors are perfect, Joey Starr and Marina Foïs ahead. The children are outstanding as well.We're seeing the day-to-day life of the entire squad, their personality and bond are all different and very interesting. In my opinion there aren't supporting roles. Each one contribute to the richness of the movie. All the case depicted, theses lives, are overwhelming. From the little girl whose father "loves her too much" to the molested delivering girl, not to mention heart-breaking Ousmane. And yet it's the everyday life of a juvenile division. I couldn't bear it. My favorite movie of 2011 for the feelings it brought me.

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John Williams
2012/05/23

The film starts out as an interesting pseudo-documentary about the French Child Protection Services, and it seems sort of like The Office. Unfortunately the film then drags on for another 90 minutes as it jumps from vignette to vignette (abused child, abandoned child, etc) while you get to see a massively dysfunctional arm of the police department yell and function incoherently. If I was their boss, I would've fired about half of the people in that office long before movie ended.The drama is hugely overblown in the film, but unfortunately it is not funny in any scene, even when the director tries to make it so, as when the -entire department- starts making fun of a girl who was sexually abused after her cell phone was stolen. Other ridiculous scenes (although there are so many): • Fred taking off the glasses of the (unnamed?) weirdo photographer, then letting her hair down? It's like out of some 1980s teen comedy, but done here to supremely awkward effects.• The CPS people abusing a girl who just gave a stillborn (or possibly aborted) baby a few months after being raped.• So, so, so many unexplained character interactions, e.g. between the weirdo photographer and her baby daddy. Why is he taking care of their children? Why does he seem like a child molester himself, but then this plot is never, ever developed at all? Why is she hiding from his gaze when she leaves her apartment, across the street? None of this is even remotely explained. The photographer's romance with the guy on the squad is incredibly overdone and unnecessary.• Why did they think it was a good idea to bring along someone with horrible anxiety issues to an undercover gem smuggling operation? No one was like "this girl who freaks out by saying 'hello' should probably not be playing a central role in the operation"?There are many more. I don't seem to be nitpicky, I can enjoy movies with some plot holes, but this film is an entire series of partially explained character interactions. It's the film equivalent of Lost. Stop introducing character development if you're not going anywhere with it, good lord. I get that nothing is really 'resolved' when you're working with Child Protection Services, but even that point is not gotten across very well.I've seen worse films, but would definitely not recommend this to anyone. I did not previously know that Luc Besson was a pedophile and molested this film's director when she was a girl, but it's also unfortunate that she didn't make a better story about child abuse, given her own history. C'est la vie.

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turners-1
2012/05/24

This film is the biggest heap of rubbish I have seen in years - nothing but a vanity project for the director. If people are left thinking that this is how a CPU would behave in any western European country then the director should hang her head in shame. Firstly the plot is a mess -events happen without any seeming rhyme of reason, all in the midst of a lot of shouting and flouncing by the CPU staff, none of which is in the least bit believable (at the start of the film a banner flashes up that 'these cases are based on real cases'). The overacting is appalling. The scene in the shopping mall is a joke, people standing round talking into walkie-talkies when they are supposed to be keeping a low profile in order to arrest a group of jewel smugglers. Secondly it is impossible to care about any of the characters, or what happens to them, with the possible exception of Ballou. All the while we get loving shots of the director (a very comely wench it must be admitted) looking gorgeous and simpering.I watched the film with a social worker who couldn't stop laughing at how ludicrous the whole film was, and I could not but help agree. As for the ending.....There is a major film to be made about the work of CPUs, but this definitely isn't it.

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gregking4
2012/05/25

This French drama is set inside the Child Protection Unit of the Paris police. This is the unit that deals with crimes involving children and crimes against children, and some of the material here is supposedly based on actual cases. Actress, co-writer and director Maitwenn Le Besco has obviously thoroughly researched the background of the Unit, and she brings a documentary-like realism to the material through the use of hand held cameras, rapid cutting between scenes, overlapping story lines, and natural performances from an ensemble cast. There are some strong and unsettling moments interspersed throughout the film. Some of the characters are more fully developed than others, and this creates an uneven balance. A photojournalist (played by the director herself) is assigned to record the activities of the unit, and she becomes embedded and gets swept up in some of their activities. The members of the specialist unit seek catharsis for their stress through drink, casual sex, and inappropriate black humour. It is often demanding and draining work, as they often witness some of the worst deprivations in society, and the horrors that they deal with on a daily basis take their toll, both personally and professionally. With its mix of black humour, police procedural, tired melodrama and action, Polisse sometimes comes across like the pilot episode for a TV series about the CPU, sort of like a frenetic cross between The Wire and Law & order: SVU.

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