Review: Drift Away
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 of his professional community, a portrait of a seriously fractured French society, the distant ocean ...
Source: cineuropa.org