Directed by: Romain Gavras

Written By: Romain Gavras and Karim Boukercha

Cinematography: Andre Chemetoff 

Editor: Benjamin Weill 

Cast: Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy, Justine Lerooy, Vanessa Decat, Boris Gamthety, Randolphe Blanchet, Camille Rowe, Josephine De La Baume, Jacques Herlin, Pierre Boulanger 

The outcast red-haired teenager Rémy is bullied at school and lives with his estranged mother and sister in France. The also red-haired psychiatrist Patrick befriends Rémy and helps him to release his repressed hatred and sexuality. When Rémy sees a picture of red-haired people in Ireland, he forces Patrick to travel with him to his dreamland.

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I am a fan of Director Romain Gavras. His music video work has always been wonderful and arresting and always seems to have deeper meanings than what was natural to make movies and he has made quite a few. Some have been better than others, but none seem to have the strength of his music video worked, even though visually they are all strong. Unfortunately, this film is part of that trend.

This film Is an extension of the music video free for the artist, MIA the Director Romain Garvas directed. 

Where redheads are treated as second-class citizens the video was meant to be a commentary on illegal immigration and was much more violent with you and putting them in internment camps.

The film is a bit more dramatic and is a tale of a disaffected boy who is bullied and finds a companion in a social worker who is also tired of being treated as lower class in his days he sees others who are considered better or above him who act worse, so the two of them team up on a kind of crime spree him as the mentor Trying to make the young man violent and actually live and stick up for himself.

The film seems to say something about national pride and natural-born citizens because of their heritage being treated like they don’t belong and in effect, immigrants in their own country, only raised to a little more ridiculous level and still having a tinge of white rage and supremacist feelings.

These escapades include trying to make the boy realize which sexuality he identifies with getting into numerous physical fights, and not being afraid of violence, seems to get depressed at a certain point just as the boy hits his stride and vice versa at times.

Wow, this is certainly a visible film there are many times during the film that one wishes that it was a bit more like the music video a bit more exciting, and maybe something has a bit more of something to say rather than just feeling like an excuse for these scenes and certain characters Just to behave reprehensibly but have meaning behind them. 

It’s a film I wish brought the audience in more but seems to go off on its own path and on whims that I’m not sure it’s quite what the audience is looking for. It never offers easy answers and a few that it does offer seem a bit confusing or questionable.

Though maybe in the end, that is what the film always wanted for an audience that was looking for rage to be expressed through violence or some kind of shooting spree or thinking this film was just gonna be 90 minutes of pure anger and finding that the characters for all their anger for the most part while brave are mostly cowards And still have some of their humanity, no matter the indignities put upon them.

GRADE: C

Grade: C