Chichester Cinema at New Park
Point Blank
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Nail-biting French thriller for director of Anything for Her (remade as ‘The next 3 Days’).
An intern preparing to sit his nurse’s exam finds himself targeted by violent criminals in the Parisian underworld for some reason he can’t quite fathom. They abduct his wife, and demand that he smuggle a mysterious patient out of his hospital.
Samuel has no idea who this is, brought in after a motorcycle accident, but he knows that the thugs will kill his wife if he can’t figure out a way to get the man out of the hospital where he works. We learn relatively little of the man he finds himself escorting across Paris, save that he’s a very violent man.
The movie retains an edge throughout with a a genuine sense of danger running through the picture, and we cannot take a happy ending for granted, nor do we find ourselves growing to trust his companion, either. Totally gripping! (Subtitles)
France · 2011 · Fred Cavayé · 85min
