How do you say "Whatever!" in French?
Author: George Parker from Orange County, CA USA
2 July 2003
"Thieves" has Techine at the helm with Deneuve and Auetuil in the spotlight and critical plaudits aplenty. However, my reaction at the end of the two hour flick was "Yeah, so???". Telling of the intertwined lives of a cop and his brother and a girl and her lover and a handful of other people, this character driven flick wanders to and fro interminably, jumping around in time, examining the details of their fatalistic and pragmatic lives as they fuss and stew and brood over the this and that of their existence.
Given subtitles and a soup thin story with no moral, no message, no hero, no villain*, just character study heaped upon character study and no character that's even likeable, "Thieves" will not have much appeal for the masses. Recommended for French speakers or French film buffs only. (B)... ha ha!
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*This is what we call an adult film here in France.Nothing like a blockbuster U.S movie,where everything is predigested for you,where the characters are shown as the "good",the "villain" as life is'nt black or white as American mass want it to be...Et surtout pas cette morale à la con que vous nous refourguez dans tous vos foutus films américains!
