'Drift Away' Review | Hollywood Reporter
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 unravels and affects the lives of all those involved. In Xavier Beauvois’ low-key police drama Dri...
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