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Plein sud is the newest film by Sébastien Lipshitz, written by himself, Stéphane Bouquet and Vincent Poymiro, starring Yannick Renier, Léa Seydoux, Théo Frilet and Pierre Perrier.
Plot:
Sam (Yannick Renier) is heading South, trying to take care of some family business. On the way he picks up the siblings Léa (Léa Seydoux) who is pregnant and Mathieu (Théo Frilet). Mathieu falls in love with Sam, who remains remote. Feeling neglected, Léa picks up yet antoher hitchhiker, Jérémie (Pierre Perrier) and the four of them continue South, while Sam tries to get a grip on the traumatic events in his childhood.
Visually, the film is really good: Lipshitz assembles some very pretty people and the cinematography is great. Yannick Renier is the perfect guy to play the brooding, mysterious hero. But other than that the film didn’t have much to offer to me.
I don’t know if my less than excited reaction to this film stems from the fact that I expected something else or that I just thought that Sam’s dramatic past was a bit … meh and that I really didn’t care too much about it. Also, it never really became clear why he’d put up with his hitchhikers.
Léa and her story felt a bit tacked on and made the movie – that’s actually pretty short – feel way longer than it should. It’s no wonder that they were dropped quickly towards the end, though it made for an awkward ending.
I’m usually not one for the dark and brooding type, but Yannick Renier really makes it work. Holy crap that is a beautiful man. And you can completely understand, at first, that Mathieu would fall for him. But he continuously behaves like a dick, even if he apologises afterwards, that doesn’t really make it better. After a while, Mathieu should know better.
But anyway – the only thing I really took away from this film were the visuals. The cinematography is mostly great, though there are a few scenes shot by Mathieu on a camcorder which I could have easily done without.
Summarising: It’s probably enough to look at stills, especially pictures of Yannick Renier.
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Am yet to see this flick, but according to your review it’s not that good. Still it does have a nice cast. They all good actors, not just pretty faces. So I’m still keen on checking this out someday. After all it’s the kind of movie that has a capability of being a good movie.
Maybe you’ll like it more than I did. My opinion is not the law, after all (sometimes much to my chagrin) ;).
Ha!! no, but still I enjoyed reading your review.
And I don’t know whether I’ll like it or not. But I’ll have to watch it and see.
I’m not into Hollywood Blockbusters full of special effects, meaningless violence, a load of pretty faces lacking talent, with dialogues like ‘Runnnnn…’, ‘Noooo!!!’ etc etc.
So that’s why I said this movie has the capability of being good, even though it might not end up being a good flick ultimately.
Of course, since tastes are different, everybody has to see/watch for themselves.
I do like blockbusters, too, but it’s good that other kinds of movies exist. Diversity is what keeps everything alive.