Posted: April 27, 2014 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Amandine Escoffier, Emilie Dequenne, How I Came to Hate Math, Jeremie Galan, Loic Corbery, Lucas Belvaux, Not My Type, Olivier Peyon, Pascal Elbe, Patrick Giminez, Trapped, Vincent Crouzet, Yannick Saillet | 581 Comments »
In Trapped, the new minimalist thriller written by Vincent Crouzet, Jeremie Galan, Patrick Giminez, Yannick Saillet and directed by Saillet, a French patrol is ambushed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. In the ensuing battle, all but two French soldiers are killed.
But upon investigating their ambushers, the two soldiers discover a truck piled high with blocks of heroin and a female hostage, a beautiful, blonde and blue eyed Aryan of course (as beautiful, blonde and blue eyed as Fay Wray in King Kong—well, I think she was blue eyed, I mean, King Kong was in B&W, so I guess, I can’t be sure…)
Anyway, one of the soldiers is killed, the other, our hapless hero Denis, steps on a land mine and can’t move or, well, boom goes the dynamite. Read the rest of this entry »