Is Borgo a good movie? What do viewers think of this movie with Hafsia Hertz inspired by a true story?

Four years after The Girl with the Bracelet, the César for Best Adaptation, Stéphane Demostier returns with Borgo, a prison drama starring Hafsia Hertz, Moussa Mansal, Louis Mem, Florence Luare Kyle, Pablo Pauli and Michel Fau.

In this feature film inspired by the news, Melissa (Hertz), a 32-year-old experienced prison guard, settles in Corsica with her two young children and her husband (Mansal). An opportunity for a new beginning. He joins the teams of the correctional center like everyone else. Here they say that the guards are watched by the prisoners. Melissa’s integration is facilitated by Saveryu (Memi), a young inmate who appears influential and takes her under his protection. But after his release, Saveryu reconnected with Melissa. He has a request… The destructive mechanism then begins.

Presented at the Angoulême Film Festival de la Francophonie and the Reims Polar competition, the feature film has an audience rating of 4 stars out of 5 from 174 reviews and 40 critics, 39 of whom awarded the film 3 or more stars.

What do viewers think of Borgo?

Corinne76100 appreciates the production and the suspense: “A very well-executed production that gives the film all its curiosity and interest. Suspense alternated with humor, a great moment!”. Dominic J. Stéphane Demostier even compares the direction of Quentin Tarantino: “Seen at the Reims Polar Festival. The director reminds us a bit of Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. The cast is excellent. The script is well constructed. I liked it.”

On the other hand, internet user Blankovich compares the film to Jacques Audiard’s masterpiece, The Prophet: “This film is a bit reminiscent of The Prophet in its atmosphere. The script is clever and the film construction is cleverly used (for once).

A film in the tradition of the Prophet?

A sentiment shared by evariste75, who writes: “Interesting film about a prison world on a beauty island. A brilliant stay Hapsia Hertz which portrays a matron who doesn’t let herself go, at least she believes so at first. The film is similar to Jacques Audiard’s The Prophet, with Niels Arestrup playing an incarcerated Corsican mob boss who lays down the law in prison. However, I find the ending of the film incredible…”

Club AlloCiné’s Yves Gee gives it a 3.5 and writes, “The Stéphane Demoustier-directed Girl with the Bracelet is one of the best films of 2020.” “Borgo” presents the same rare quality: we see an insidious chain of ambiguity in which Melissa is constantly lost in the prison and outside the walls, a warmer welcome than the spontaneously hostile locals.

Borgo It could have been more refined, in my opinion, in the staging of this slow sequence, where I found Melissa making insecure decisions at times. It would have been even more believable if this slow sequence suffered more than it acted.

The second drawback of the film in my eyes is the interpretation of Hafsia Herz. I know the journey of this promising actress after appearing with Kechiche in La Graine et le Mulet. He never really convinced me. I blame him for the monotony of his playing and his diction. But I have to admit that his stubborn stubbornness does wonders in the last scene.”

Lack of emotion?

Fée des Salle is more mixed, finding the film too crude to be compared to Audiard’s Caesar-winning feature film: “Where Le Prophète is brilliant, faithful and realistic, Borgo is bleak. In the absence of emotion from both main actors, whose face does not exist. Remains frozen ( Oh no, it’s true, it hints at a smile on J. Clerk’s song, it’s not so much!) than with the caricatures of the characters, especially the police.

It seems that everyone has given themselves the word for “normal behavior”, but it really sounds like a lie. The over-the-shoulder camera type and behind-the-scenes characters are already visible, too much is definitely visible. The mafia’s spiral is not true either. In short, unfortunately there is neither intensity nor pleasure while watching this movie, we are almost bored. But that’s just my opinion.”

Borgo (The name of the correctional center in which the action takes place) is currently in the cinema.