Polisse
France
2011
127 Min
Color
1.85:1
French
Synopsis
The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department’s Juvenile Protection Unit – taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive parents, taking statements from children, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with colleagues and laughing uncontrollably at the most unthinkable moments. Knowing the worst exists and living with it.
How do these cops balance their private lives and the reality they confront every working day? Fred, the group’s hypersensitive wild card, is going to have a hard time facing the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer on a Ministry of the Interior assignment to document the unit. —Cannes Film Festival
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Pierre
1May12
The ending is a great coda to the film's constant push-pull of humour and bleakness, suffering and joy. Those conflicting tones are constantly rubbing up against each other moment by moment, abrasively so, and somehow Maïwenn has the audacity to submerge the audience in that disorienting moral ground. Some of the performances she gets from actors and kids alike are simply stunning. The crying scene? My heart broke.
5 o'clock coffee
19Apr12
The “journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division that enters an affair with one of her subjects” is only part of a wider and more complex quilt of characters and interesting stories. Maïwenn brings up the dirty and dark side of Paris with the help of an excellent team of child actors and the best known actors of the French cinema of today.
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Movie Poster of the Week: The posters of the 2011 Cannes Competition
By Adrian Curry on May 20, 2011
The end of the world will be beautiful, or so says the Polish poster for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, quite fittingly on the eve of
Cannes 2011. Rushes: "Polisse", "Puzzle of a Downfall Child", "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
By Daniel Kasman on May 14, 2011
Alice de Lencquesaing, a touching young presence in year after year of French festival films (see: Summer Hours, Father of My Children), drops
Cannes 2011. Maïwenn's "Poliss"
By David Hudson on May 13, 2011
Updated through 5/17. Let's note right off the top, first, that the title's derived from the director's misspelling of "Police" and that the
Tribeca 2012 Review: POLISSE Makes for an Atypical & Harrowing Procedural
By Twitchfilm.com on April 20, 2012
It’s been over eight hours since I left the theater; eight hours after taking in the third film from filmmaker/actress Maïwenn, largely my first experience with her work. Polisse (a clever, simple, kid
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Almost a tv drama
By 5 o'clock coffee on April 19, 2012
“Polisse” synopsis is so dull and poor that I am glad I had not read it before watching the movie. The “journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division that enters an affair with one of… read review
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