God, this movie was a hard watch. It took me four days to get through it. I am not in the mood for social commentary dramas at the best of times, much less when we're on lockdown in our homes and idiots are speculating how many of the vulnerable should be considered an acceptable loss so their 401ks don't take a hit.Ruiz (Damien Bonnard) has just joined an elite inner city crime unit and is placed on a team with Chris (Alexis Manenti) and Gwada (Djebril Zonga). He is very quickly uncomfortable with the other two's willingness to harass and terrorize the residents of Montfermeil, famous for being where Victor Hugo wrote his novel Les Misérables. The cops' continual draconian behavior leads to intense confrontations after a kid (Issa Perica) steals a lion cub from a traveling circus, breaking the very delicate balance between the local drug lord trying to keep the peace (Steve Tientcheu) and the leader of the local Muslim Brotherhood faction (Almamy Kanouté).
Everything in this movie is just uuuuugggggghhhhhh. The cops are all bastards, the community is divided, everyone distrusts everyone else, and the kids are all caught in the middle with no hope. Yeah, it's a very good film and timely and filled with tension, good performances, and excellent pacing. Would I ever watch it again? Fuck no. It's currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
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