“Excellent French thriller”: rating 4 out of 5, this is the best movie with Gerard Lanvin!

Alain Berberian and Frédéric Forestier’s comedy Le Boulet airs tonight on TFX. In the film directed by Gérard Lanvin, Benoît Poelvoorde and José García, Moltes (Lanvin), a prisoner, plays the lottery every week. It’s Reggio (Poelvoorde), a clumsy prison guard checking his ballots. One day, Moltes finds out that he won the jackpot: fifteen bars! But Reggio believes that Pauline (Rossi De Palma), his nurse wife, has taken the winning ticket to a rally in Africa. Moltes then escaped from prison to Bamako to collect the ticket. He forces Reggio to accompany him and finds himself in the middle of the desert being chased by Turk (Garcia), a formidable gangster who wants his life, and Maggie (Gary Tipled), his giant bodyguard.

Released in April 2002, the comedy attracted more than 3 million viewers in cinemas. Regarding the telecast of the feature film, we invite you to find out which is the favorite film of Gerard Lanvin’s filmography among AlloCiné Internet users.

What is your favorite film from Gerard Lanvin’s filmography?

With an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars, for 21,896 ratings and 966 reviews, Jean-Francois Richet’s Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008) is the highest rated film of the actor’s career. In the second part of the diptych, Gerard Lanvin Plays Charlie Bauer, the traveling companion of Jacques Mesrin (played by Vincent Cassel), with whom he shares his revolutionary views and criminal activities. Charlie Bauer is a former left-wing activist and thug who became one of Mesrine’s close friends during his final years on the run.

For most Internet users, this second installment is just as good as the first release a month earlier. Internet user BiggerThanLife notes: “As intense as the first… Cassel is imperial! Riche has mastered it from start to finish… a future classic of French detective cinema… damn, if only all French films were like this!

CG1218 writes: “Gangster turned icon, Jacques Mesrin continues to fascinate with his personality and stunts. Robberies, escapes, kidnappings, seizures, from his return to France in December 1972 to his death on November 2, 1979, the film focuses on. The most intense events of the man who was called Public Enemy No. 1 .Like the first part, the production is still as effective and realistic, although its pace, violence and darkness are increased, Olivier Gourmand and Georges Wilson in their last role, a big congratulations to the trio of Jean-Francois Richet, Abdel Rauf Dufry and Thomas Langman, who are responsible for this influential on a diptych.

For AMCHI: “The first one didn’t really surprise me, and as a result I didn’t go to the cinema to see the second film dedicated to Mesrine’s diptych. I was wrong, because this 2nd opus is much more successful than the first: more rhythmic, more attractive, with a lot of action and flawless interpretation. Cassel is a mess, and he was satisfied with his performance in the 1st. The ending is full of angst, very controlled. “Public Enemy No. 1 is a great French thriller.”

For Dougray, this second part is superior to the first: “The continuation and ending of the diptych dedicated to Mesrine. And for my part, I found “Public Enemy No. 1” superior to “Death Instinct”. First, the production finally ends at the height of the character. , all violence and nervousness, but also with very appropriate humor, all orchestrated by the music, which finally finds its place on everything we feel that Jean-Francois Richet has a certain admiration for the man, which is felt in his lack of perspective, especially in the description of his death (the latter, where the policeman kills Mesrine with a bullet in the head. It is quite doubtful that the real Mesrine), but also a fantastic secondary Roles such as Ludivine Sagnier as the gangster’s last love, Olivier Gourmand as the stunning Commissaire Broussard, Samuel Le Bihan as the gunslinger, Mathieu Amalric as the elusive king on the run or even Gérard Lanvin in the role of Charlie Bauer are incredible. A great film that There should be a hint for a long time… One downside though: the ending drags a bit.”

If the Internet user evaluates the service Gerard LanvinOthers, on the contrary, believe that the actor does too much… A visitor wrote in January 2009: “In this movie full of inconsistencies, the bad acting of Cassel’s actors, Lanvin is ridiculous… I expected a lot from this movie and I am disappointed, I invite everyone who liked the movies to read the books to understand what. To the extent that Richet botched his two films and by no means made a biopic on Mesrin.’

finally djeff17 “This movie is even worse than the first episode, because this time it’s not even unintentionally funny, if for lack of something better we try to smile while listening to Gerard Lanvin hesitating between imitating Fernandel’s or Raimus’s accent.

Malevolent Reviews, in turn, praised the film, but Lanvin was not so reliable. “The second part of the diptych, dedicated to the large-scale criminal Jacques Mesrine, Public Enemy No. 1 forgets the French gangster’s bloody beginnings to concentrate mainly on his spectacular escape with Francois Besse and Charlie Bauer, deepening his distant relationships. His family and Inspector Broussard Mesrine in this second part becomes a more attractive character, but also more dramatic, Jean-Francois Richet, who supports the human side to the maximum… From a selfish and violent scoundrel, Jacques becomes a real sympathetic, funny and moving anti-hero, Vincent Cassel Always as close as possible to portraying this terribly ambiguous character, we also meet as a mad inspector, played by Sagnier and Mesrin, who, like Ludivine, are accompanied by new heroes who are the rough revolutionary Gerard Lanvin (sadly not very reliable) and the mysterious Mathieu Almaric (perfect).