DRIFT AWAY
ALBATROS
Director
Xavier Beauvois
Cast
Jérémie Renier
Producer
Les Films du Worso
Screenwriter
Xavier Beauvois, Frédérique Moreau, Marie-Julie Maille
Distributor
Pathé
Sales
Pathé
Laurent, a young police officer in a small town in Normandy, plans to marry Marie, with whom he has a daughter nicknamed Poulette. He loves his job despite the social misery he witnesses on a daily basis. Then one day, his life is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a farmer threatening to commit suicide…
CINEMANIA’s opinion :
“By dint of seeing the sea every day, one inevitably feels like filming it and trying to go further, to imagine how one might go about filming a storm”. Filmmaker Xavier Beauvois, who won a Cesar for OF GOD AND MEN in 2010, is here at the height of his craft. He entrusts to Jeremie Renier (L’ENNEMI, SLALOM, AMANT DOUBLE) the role of a depressed man and his sudden descent into hell after committing an irreparable act…In the final analysis, it’s in his magnificent confrontation with the elements and great ocean expanses, that he takes the progressive road to recovery. An uncluttered social drama that pays discreet homage to the devotion of police officers.
CINEMANIA’s opinion :
“By dint of seeing the sea every day, one inevitably feels like filming it and trying to go further, to imagine how one might go about filming a storm”. Filmmaker Xavier Beauvois, who won a Cesar for OF GOD AND MEN in 2010, is here at the height of his craft. He entrusts to Jeremie Renier (L’ENNEMI, SLALOM, AMANT DOUBLE) the role of a depressed man and his sudden descent into hell after committing an irreparable act…In the final analysis, it’s in his magnificent confrontation with the elements and great ocean expanses, that he takes the progressive road to recovery. An uncluttered social drama that pays discreet homage to the devotion of police officers.
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