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Regarde les Hommes Tomber (1994)

Regarde les Hommes Tomber (1994)
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This French crime thriller was the directorial debut of screenwriter Jacques Audiard and won three Césars. Jean Yanne stars as Simon Hirsch, a bored, middle-aged salesman who accompanies his best friend, cop Mickey (Yvon Back), on a stakeout for the sake of excitement. When Mickey is shot and put into a coma, Simon sets aside his job and family in order to catch the would-be killers. In a parallel story that takes place a few years earlier, a thug and gambler named Marx (Jean-Louis Trintignant) teaches a simple-minded youth named Johnny (Mathieu Kassovitz) the finer points of thug life, including shakedowns and professional hits. The paths of Marx and Johnny don't cross with that of Simon until the film's surprising climax. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

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Starring:
Jean-Louis TrintignantJean Yanne, (more)
Director(s):
Jacques Audiard
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Synopsis of Regarde les Hommes Tomber

This French crime thriller was the directorial debut of screenwriter Jacques Audiard and won three Césars. Jean Yanne stars as Simon Hirsch, a bored, middle-aged salesman who accompanies his best friend, cop Mickey (Yvon Back), on a stakeout for the sake of excitement. When Mickey is shot and put into a coma, Simon sets aside his job and family in order to catch the would-be killers. In a parallel story that takes place a few years earlier, a thug and gambler named Marx (Jean-Louis Trintignant) teaches a simple-minded youth named Johnny (Mathieu Kassovitz) the finer points of thug life, including shakedowns and professional hits. The paths of Marx and Johnny don't cross with that of Simon until the film's surprising climax. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
90 mins

Complete Cast of Regarde les Hommes Tomber


Director(s):
Jacques Audiard
Writer(s):
Alain Le HenryJacques Audiard
Producer(s):
Didier Haudepin
Regarde les Hommes Tomber Awards:
  • 1994 - French Academy of Cinema - Best Editing
  • 1994 - French Academy of Cinema - Most Promising Young Actor
  • 1994 - French Academy of Cinema - Best First Film
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Keith G.

While not everything works, this is more interesting as a partial failure than most films are as complete successes. An oddball mix of thriller, character study and very quirky comedy. It follows two parallel stories that finally intersect. The unlikely, ultimately homoerotic friendship between a small time con-man/drifter (Jean-Louis Trintignant), and the semi-retarded wanderer he meets on the road (Mathieu Kassovitz), and a man"s mid-life crisis when a cop friend is shot and left brain dead, leading him to give up everything, work, marriage, to try and find meaning in his life by finding the killers. There are leaps of logic, but some very nice character moments as well. I liked it even better on 2nd viewing.

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