Mesrine. Killer instinct [videorecording] / Thomas Langmann présente ; sous le direction de Jean-François Richet ; scénario, Abdel Raouf Dafri ; une coproduction ... La Petite Reine ... [et al.].
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: MBFHE-015 | Music Box FilmsLanguage: French, English Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Mesrine saga ; pt. 1.Publication details: Chicago : Music Box Films, [2011]Description: 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title: - English title from subtitles: Killer instinct
- Title on container: Mesrine. Killer instinct
- L'instinct de mort (Motion picture). English & French.
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- Cinematography, Robert Gantz ; original music, Éloi Painchaud.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This tough and gritty French-language crime drama represents the premier installment in a two-part series of features on the life and doings of notorious Gallic hood Jacques Mesrine (1936-1979). Mesrine is played, in both installments, by actor Vincent Cassel, who reportedly underwent massive weight gain and weight loss to convincingly portray the volatile Mesrine at various periods of his life. Director Jean-François Richet begins in 1979, with Mesrine's uncommonly violent death, whereby he and a beautiful young woman are suddenly (and fatally) ambushed by Parisian police not far from Mesrine's place of birth. Richet then flashes back to the Franco-Algerian War of the late '50s and a brutal interrogation undergone by Mesrine. Following a military discharge, Mesrine returns to his parents' suburb of Clichy, where his dad has arranged a pathetic job for him in a lace-making factory. Never one to take humiliation lying down, Jacques perceives burglary, larceny, and racketeering as much-superior options and decides to pursue a life of crime via a "business partnership" with childhood buddy Paul (Gilles Lellouche), who works for mobster Guido (Gérard Depardieu). As the years pass, Jacques works his way up through the ranks of the underworld; via Paul, he also meets and falls hard for two women: Pigalle streetwalker Sarah (Florence Thomassin), and Sofia (Elena Anaya), a beautiful Spanish woman with whom he cohabitates after doing time in a French prison. Following a brief and unsuccessful attempt to "go straight," Jacques reconnects with Guido, then finds it necessary to escape from France to Canada with his new mistress, Jeanne (Cécile De France). Unfortunately, another prison sentence is waiting for him there, replete with brutal solitary confinement, but the possibility of a daring escape beckons. The second half of the Mesrine saga, entitled Mesrine: L'Énnemi Public No. 1 for French release, followed immediately after and picks up where this installment wraps. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Based on the book by Jacques Mesrine.
Bonus feature: Theatrical trailer.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008.
Cinematography, Robert Gantz ; original music, Éloi Painchaud.
Vincent Cassel, Gérard Depardieu, Cecile de France, Gilles Lellouche.
The first of two parts charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine, the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and the Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings, and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France's notorious anti-gang unit.
MPAA rating: R; for strong brutal violence, some sexual content and language.
DVD, NTSC, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.
French or English dialogue with optional English subtitles.