When Gino meets Bรฉnรฉdicte, it’s passion. Total. Incandescent.
She is a beautiful heiress, a champion of car racing. He is a troubling proletarian with illicit earnings. The kind that puts your life and your surroundings in danger.
Gino is a robber, one of the best in the Low Countries: precise, respected, and, above all, discreet.
When he crosses paths with Bรฉnรฉdicte (Adรจle Exarchopoulos, incandescent), a racing driver and the daughter of a powerful cement factory owner, you feel these two wild animals were meant to meet.
So Gino and Bรฉnรฉdicte will have to fight against everyone, against reason, and against their own flaws to remain true to their love.
The couple’s inevitable descent into hell, however eventful it may be, remains, through to the end, illuminated by the strength of their love.
A film about class divide, perhaps a little drawn out.
After a virtuoso first part in the form of a classic thriller, it radically changes tone to venture into melodrama.
An improbable but successful fusion, with romantic passions and criminal rivalries finding a new ground for expression and complexity.
The romantic action film that seemed to arise from their hyper-dramatized meeting ultimately transforms into a stark and uncomfortable melodrama.
After “Bullhead,” “The Drop,” and his series “Berlin Station,” Michael R. Roskam confirms the breadth of his talent.
