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Title: The Right of the Weakest (2006)
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| Éric Caravaca | ... | Patrick | |
| Lucas Belvaux | ... | Marc Pirmet | |
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Claude Semal | ... | Robert |
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Patrick Descamps | ... | Jean-Pierre |
| Natacha Régnier | ... | Carole | |
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Elie Belvaux | ... | Steve |
| Gilbert Melki | ... | Le ferrailleur | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Philippe Anciaux | ... | Capitain Magis |
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Daniela Bisconti | ... | Gina |
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Andrée Cambier | ... | Mère de Robert |
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Michel Colecchia | ... | Policier en civil |
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Christian Crahay | ... | Père de Carole |
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Raymonde Dullers | ... | Voisine de Patrick |
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Théo Hebrans | ... | Vieux joueur de cartes |
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Dominique Heinry | ... | Policier en civil |
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In Liège, a group of men gathers every day in a café situated near the steel factory which once reigned supreme. They play cards in a warm atmosphere but that hardly masks their quiet desperation. All unemployed, either because they can't find work like Patrick or because they have been made redundant like Robert and Jean-Pierre, they try to forget their lot in the warm atmosphere of the place. One day, Marc, a newcomer, joins them. It soon appears that the man has just been released from prison and even if he is determined to go straight his presence suddenly inspires Robert : why not try criminality ? Written by Guy Bellinger
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industrial town | post industrial society | working class | joblessness | factory dismantling |Certificate:
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FrenchRelease Date:
19 July 2006 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Patrick: I have three master degrees and they are of no use. My wife who has to wake up at dawn every day, ruining her health, and we don't even have enough to buy an used motorbike. So here you should try to support me, but you aren't going to say anything, because there is nothing to be said, there is nothing to wait for.See more »
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3 unemployed men with bleak futures decide to try a robbery to turn their lives around.
The film is beautifully photographed, and has a gritty sense of realism and dark sense of humor, along with a deliberate pace some may find off-putting.
This isn't a heist film about action, but rather about hopelessness, poverty, and moral choices. It isn't afraid to let us feel ambiguity at what the men are doing, at the same time creating characters that can't help but elicit our sympathy, and make us wonder, "at what point does society create its own criminals"?
There are some weak spots – the men are almost too perfect a cross section of the down-and out; the young man whose schooling and hard work have left him nowhere, the unwanted man in a wheelchair and the middle aged man phased out for someone younger. I'm not quite sure I buy them as friends in the first place, but once I accepted that slight contrivance, the film worked well on all it's levels; character study, political tract and crime thriller.
It reminded me of something Sidney Lumet might have made in the 1970s. For my taste, that's a good thing.