Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (Mesrine: L'instinct de Mort)
  • Duration: 113
  • Certificate: 15
  • Director: Jean-François Richet
  • Stars: Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu
  • Year: 2008
  • Country of origin: France

The early career and criminal gestation of France's most notorious bank robber and gangster Jacques Mesrine circumscribed in the first of two films telling his remarkable story. Tracing a line from Mesrine's disillusioning military service during the Algerian war to the beginning of his notoriety in 1972, the first instalment of this epic crime tale is derivative, energetic and hugely enjoyable.

Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One

Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One

Second part of biopic on France's most notorious bank robber

(4 stars)21 Aug 2009

Part two of Jean François Richet’s epic account of the contrary life and times of France’s most famous bank robber and criminal mastermind Jacques Mesrine – we are now in the realm of myth and self-deception. Written, like it’s predecessor, by Abdel…

Profile: Jean-François Richet

Profile: Jean-François Richet

The French film-maker behind Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One

21 Aug 2009

Name Jean-François Richet Born 2 July, 1966, Paris Background Having grown up in the satellite town of Meaux, east of Paris, Jean-François Richet made his feature debut in 1995 with the Cesar-nominated Inner City (Etat des lieux). He went on to…

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Mesrine: Killer Instinct (l’Instinct de Mort)

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (l’Instinct de Mort)

(4 stars)30 Jul 2009

Tracing a line from Mesrine’s disillusioning military service during the Algerian war to the beginning of his notoriety in 1972 (when he graduated to murder), the first instalment of this epic crime tale is derivative, energetic and hugely…

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