Free on Prime Video: Is the ending of Melanie Laurent’s film accurate? The last sequence makes people react

Please note that it is recommended that you watch the movie Libre on Prime Video before reading this article.

March 29, 1985. French viewers learned about the death of Bruno Sulak, a robber accused of committing almost twenty robberies over several years. His main weapon: the robbery of two Cartier stores – in Paris and Cannes – which would make him especially famous.

Presented as charming, he was best known for his non-violent armed attacks. Bruno Sulak was a free man, one of those who like to escape from the law and who does not agree with the domination of the rich over the poor. A sort of Arsene Lupine or Robin Hood, if you will.

Mélanie Laurent’s new film – Libre – offers an almost fictional view of her life, but unfortunately remains too superficial. If the screenplay he co-wrote with Christophe Deslandes takes some liberties with the facts, his final scene is particularly striking.

We see Bruno Sulak fighting two guards from the Fleury-Merog prison. In the next scene, the robber walks through the window in slow motion. His position leaves little room for doubt: he was mugged. And this is not at all the official version given by the police at the time.

Two opposite versions

According to the police and witnesses at the scene, Bruno Sulak fell from the second floor of the prison and landed badly. As a result of his injuries, he died in the hospital. For his family and friends, he was killed because he was mocking the police. And Melanie Laurent’s film takes this version of the facts, as her translator Lucas Bravo told us:

“We did some investigation and found that his injuries were not consistent with an accidental fall.”

George Moreas, the policeman who chased Bruno Sulak, condemns Melanie Laurent’s position on the subject:

“It’s not an anti-cop movie, but the ending is biased. And so it happened: he jumped out of the window into the parking lot, where the deputy director of the prison, who was his accomplice, was waiting. He opened the window and told himself that two stories up, he could do it.

The disappearance of his accomplice Steve also changed. The latter died during a shootout with the police while trying to escape his friend and never shot him in the back… to which Moreas reacted:

“I don’t understand why the police shot him in the back, it’s completely unbelievable to be honest.” Let me remind you that he went by helicopter to help his friend escape. He may have been killed soon, but he was armed.

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