Sunday, September 04, 2016

The bottom of the hole

Boisterous life of French drug smugglers in the mid-seventies and there's also the undercover cops a few steps behind. The entire drug war - based on a true story, I'm told - was heavily personified on two people on both side of the fence; judge Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) and the head of mafia Gaƫtan 'Tany' Zampa (Gilles Lellouche). And that brought reminiscences of the great Heat (Michael Mann). Nicely executed film.

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New gallows, new rope

Jeff Webster drives a cattle herd. From Wyoming to Seattle, and through the mountains to Dawson. And in the wake of the Klondike Gold Rush...