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Mama Weed Movie Review Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Jean-Paul Salomé Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Hippolyte Giradot, Farida Ouchani, Liliane Rovère, Iris Bry Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/10/21 Opens: July 16, 2021 In an end-year ranking, the New York Times declared Isabelle Huppert to be the second-best actor of the 21st Century, just behind Denzel Washington. The paper notes how she can switch from tears to smiles,...

Iris Bry, and Nadja Nguyen. Adapted from the novel "The Godmother" by Hannelore Cayre, and nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay César Award, this is a "clever French crime caper featuring an impeccably charming performance from the legendary" Huppert. Looks like a good time. Heres the official US trailer (+ French poster) for Jean-Paul Salomés Mama Weed, direct from YouTube: A French-Arabic translator for the Paris police anti-narcotics unit, Patience Portefeux (Isabelle Huppert) interpr...

Drift Away, director Xavier Beauvois––known internationally for his masterful monastery-set Of Gods and Men––juxtaposes the picturesque scenery of northern France with a policeman’s inner turmoil, and the community’s social unrest lying beneath the surface, in an intriguing if frustrating policier. Jérémie Renier plays Laurent, a police officer in Normandy, and sturdy figurehead of the community, soon to be married to his long-term girlfriend Marie (co-writer Marie-Julie Maille)...

A slow-burn police drama that never fully ignites. TWITTER French actor-director Xavier Beauvois latest feature stars Jérémie Renier as a small-town gendarme whose career takes an unwanted turn. Most cop movies — and most movies in general — spend the first reel setting up a story that usually kicks off after an “inciting incident,” to quote various screenwriting manuals, which takes place within the first ten or 15 minutes. For the rest of the film, we then watch how that incident un...

film profile] (2005), it’s now the turn of the gendarmerie (aka soldiers) to provide the director with a storyline for a rural environment. Displaying a clear understanding of uncluttered narrative and subtle signs (which ultimately translates into a sophisticated simplicity), Beauvois uses this narrative thread to create a film which simultaneously explores the trajectory of a man of action and order who suddenly loses control, the inner circle of his loving family, the habits and customs o...