Polisse
Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for 13 Cesar Awards, POLISSE follows the daily lives of a tight-knit team of men and women working in the Child Protection Unit of the Parisian police. Basing her richly textured script on real child investigation cases, writer-director-actor Maiwenn has gathered an accomplished ensemble cast of French actors who convey the emotional strain of the unit's work with gritty realism. They not only deal with the stress of their jobs but the inevitable fall-out in their personal lives - breakdowns, divorce and adulterous relations within the force. In between, there are frequent flashes of humor as the team attempts to diffuse daily realities. As the cases,confessions and interrogations pile up, the squad members have only each other as support as they face an uphill battle against both criminals and bureaucracy.
- Director
- Maiwenn
- Writers
- Maiwenn, Emmanuelle Bercot
- Actors
- Kevin Viard, Joey Starr, Marina Fois, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Maiwenn, Karole Rocher, Emmanuelle Bercot
- Genre
- Drama
- Run Time
- 2 hours 7 minutes
Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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It's messy, boring, funny, suspenseful, touching, jubilant and tragic.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 05.24.2012 -
[O]ne of the best based-on-facts police pictures.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic, 08.08.2012 -
Bluntly edited, with no hand-holding transitional scenes, the film is an intimate portrait of an idealistic, understaffed, sometimes wrongheaded team battling youth prostitution, thievery rings and adult predators from every class of society.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 06.28.2012 -
So amorphous, volatile and multi-plotted it could be a rough cut.
Nigel Andrews, Financial Times, 06.14.2012
