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‘Dossier 137’ Earns Eight-Minute Standing Ovation At Cannes Premiere
French-German filmmaker Dominik Moll returned to the Cannes Competition on Thursday with 'Dossier 137,' which received an enthusiastic eight-minute ovation.
'Dossier 137'Charades French-German filmmaker Dominik Moll returned to the Cannes Competition on Thursday with police drama Dossier 137, which received a very enthusiastic eight-minute ovation — where the audience actually was standing. The film stars Léa Drucker as a police officer working for Internal Affairs who is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. In her review for Deadline, Stephanie Bunbury called the film “a police procedural of serious purpose and sober delivery.” Moll and co-writer Gilles Marchand “bring into play their experience with suspense and an insistent narrative rhythm so that, while it isn’t exactly fun, it is gripping.” Drucker, she wrote, “gives vitality to every move and counter-move.”
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