Cute French teens with different ethnic backgrounds carry out a series of simultaneous bombings in Paris. A couple of them shoot some people, too. It's not clear what their motive is. The kids, most of them, then hide out all night in a French department store.
You know how, in Psycho, the audience presumably wanted the murderer caught, but when Anthony Perkins starts cleaning up the crime scene, viewers find themselves watching carefully hoping he doesn't miss anything? It was kind of like that here. The youngsters start trying on clothes, playing with items from the toy department and eating the food. I kept worrying they were going to get themselves caught.
I thought this might be the one French movie which, in spite of the subject matter, wouldn't make France look like a hellhole. I was wrong once again.
--SPOILER ALERT--
The movie ends with a French SWAT team moving in. According to the TV's they were watching, the French government announced that they were "enemies of the state" and there would be "no negotiations". So the police simply murder each teen as they put their hands up and try to surrender. The police look at them for a second, then shoot each one.
Available on the Criterion Channel.
Watched this one last night. Their raiding of the department store reminded me of "Dawn of the Dead".
ReplyDeleteSorry I gave away the ending.
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