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‘Dossier 137’ Review: Léa Drucker Superb In Dominik Moll’s Sober Police Drama – Cannes Film Festival
A review of Léa Drucker-led 'Dossier 137,' directed by Dominik Moll, which premiered May 15 at the Cannes Film Festival.
In Dominik Moll ’s Dossier 137, we join her in the wake of the 2018 gilets jaunes demonstrations, when 300,000 rural workers, mostly newbies to the rough and tumble of street politics, surged into Paris. French-German director Moll has made his considerable name with psychological stealth thrillers, peopled with eccentrics and spiced with peculiar motifs like the persistent rodent in Lemming(2005), the raw eggs quaffed by Sergi Lopez in Harry, He’s Here to Help(2000) or the body in the haystacks in Only the Animals(2019). A fiction based on fact, as a preliminary title tells us, it shows the wheels of justice grind into slow motion after Joelle Girard (Sandra Colombo), a middle-aged care worker, arrives with gruesome pictures of her teenage son Guillaume (Come Peronnet), now suffering brain damage after being shot in the head by a posse of riot police when he and his friend Rémi (Valentin Campagne) were running up a side street, trying to escape the mayhem.
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