Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) (2002)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Cédric Klapisch

Writers:

Santiago Amigorena (writer)
Alexis Galmot (writer)

Release Date:

5 March 2003 (Belgium)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

La mauvaise route est souvent la meilleure

Plot:

"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty (Marie Gillain), after she becomes...

Plot Keywords:

Bank Robbery | Robbery | Bank Robber | Money | Robber

Cast

Marie Gillain	...	Caty
Vincent Elbaz	...	Jean
Simon Abkarian	...	Freddy Karparian dit Lecarpe
Dimitri Storoge	...	Loulou
Zinedine Soualem	...	Mouss
Natacha Lindinger	...	Caprice
Jocelyn Lagarrigue	...	Gilles
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam	...	Le directeur du dépôt
Diane Kruger	...	La call-girl
Thierry Levaret	...	Le vigile
Michaël Abiteboul	...	Bernard dit Le King
Robert Plagnol	...	Journaliste Caprice
Camille Natta	...	Liz
Michaël Tissier	...	Anthony Karparian, le fils de Freddy (as Mickaël Tissier)
Didier Menin	...	Concierge Marriott

Also Known As:

Not for or Against (International: English title)
Personne n'est comme tout le monde (France)

Runtime:

111 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | Netherlands:12 | UK:15 | France:U | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Germany:16 | Italy:VM14

Filming Locations:

Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris 8, Paris, France

Company:

Bac Films

Movie Connections:

Features "Les shadoks - Troisième série" (1973)

Soundtrack:

I've got you under my Skin

An unexpected end for a very good film noir

This is the story of an ordinary young camerawoman who lives a boring life in Paris. She happens to meet a band of gangsters she becomes friend with and starts living their life between hold-ups, sex and money. Marie Gillain is very touching in that role where she managed to be thrilled by this exciting and dangerous life and at the same time not affected at all by the criminal nature of her acts. This movie could have just been another gangster story and this is exactly where you're being tricked into a totally different outcome. Very simple and even maybe a little bit silly, her role as a gangster is interesting and well played. The more you watch the more you start wondering why she is doing all that for and who she truly is. A stunning movie on a subject difficult to deal with if you don't want to be too cliché. A must see