For the love of a good woman, a longtime crook tries to get out of the life... but they
keep dragging him back in. Writer-director Manuel Boursinhac and cowriter Bibi Naceri graft what must be the oldest gangster-movie cliche in existence onto a less-familiar setting, an underclass of French-born and/or raised Arabs, gypsies, Spaniards and North Africans caught between two cultures and mired in street loyalties that keep them marginalized, angry and always in the middle of some potentially lethal feud. Dris (Samuel Le Bihan) is fresh out of prison, working a menial job and trying to conceive a child with his bourgeois fiancee, Lise (Marie Guillard), who waited...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
116 mins