Posted: May 4, 2014 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Christophe Offenstein, Francois Cluzet, Fred Cavaye, Frederic Petitjean, Gilles LeLouche, Guillaume Lemans, Jean Cottin, Mea Culpa, Olivier Marchal, Pierre Marcel, Turning Tide, Vince Lindon | 1,908 Comments »
At the end of Mea Culpa, the exhilarating and electrifying slam bang, no thank you ma’am, action thriller written by Fred Cavaye, Guillaume Lemans and Olivier Marchal and directed by Cavaye (all of which, especially when it comes to Cavaye. is probably a pretty redundant statement when it comes down to it), I turned to the person sitting beside me and said, “Well, I don’t know about you, but I am utterly exhausted”.
Mea Culpa is a movie in which every actor must have lost about fifty pounds by the time the shoot was over since half the time all they do is run. They run away from crooks at a bull fight into an deserted marketplace; they run away from crooks at a night club cum brothel (yeah, yeah, cum brothel, I get it); they run after crooks at an ambush at a police headquarters; they run away from crooks on a train (unless they are running to get on the train to stop the crooks).
I mean, these guys really run. A lot. I’m still exhausted just thinking about it. Read the rest of this entry »
