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Urgence
1985 Crime / Thriller
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Director:
Gilles Béhat
Starring: Richard Berry, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Jean-François Balmer, Fanny Bastien, Nathalie Courval |
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Summary
One night, Lyza sees her brother, the reporter Max Forestier, killed and narrowly escapes
death herself at the hands of an unknown assailant. She enlists the support of a
sports journalist, Jean-Pierre Mougin, who works for the same agency as her brother.
Mougin quickly drops his scepticism when he himself becomes the target of a brutal assassin
and uncovers a plot by neo-Nazi thugs to instigate a truly horrific racist terrorist attack.
The question is: will he live long enough to tell the tale…?
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Review
Sexy French film star Richard Berry is on top form in this full-bodied political thriller,
the kind of a film that was enormously popular in France in the late ’70s and early ’80s.
Although the plot is a tad absurd and strewn with well-worn clichés, the film boasts
some pretty respectable production values – solid performances from its lead actors (Berry
is particularly good here), memorable action stunts, and some moody night-time photography
that evokes the tension and menace of classic film noir. Whilst it does little to
stimulate the intellect, Urgence is a tense,
compelling, grittier than average policier, which is surprisingly entertaining and presages
the dark post-noir thrillers of the 1990s.
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