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Urgence
1985 Crime / Thriller
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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Director:
Gilles Béhat
Starring: Richard Berry, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Jean-François Balmer, Fanny Bastien, Nathalie Courval Synopsis
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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