Olivier Marchal’s violent return to the police
At the end of October 2020, Olivier Marchal opened the chapter of his fruitful collaboration with Netflix with Bronx. In this film, which marks his return to “crime” cinema. The Lyonnais AND Carbon which explores the world of criminals, tells the dramatic story of the BRI group in Marseille led by Richard Vronski, a policeman with particular methods. He and his men, very united, will enter a terrible spiral of violence when their investigation into a murder reveals the corruption of the environment and gradually sets Marseille on fire, among the policemen and among the criminals.
For Bronx, Olivier Marchal sees things big. Around his BRI group, made up of newcomers such as Lannick Gautry, Stanislas Mehrar and Kaaris, he recalls close collaborators: Gérard Lanvin, Francis Renaud, Moussa Maaskri, Alain Figlarz and Catherine Marchal and even Patrick Catalifo. He also appeals to prestigious names: Jean Reno and Claudia Cardinale. The entire cast then animates a great police tragedy from which no one will emerge unscathed.
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A real murder as a starting point
Nourished by the memories and police experience of its director, as well as by the testimonies of the contacts he maintained in the institute, Bronx opens with a terrible flashforwardbefore showing a violent settling of accounts in a bar in Marseille, the starting point of the film’s plot.
This particularly brutal sequence is inspired by a real news story, the “Killings at the Bar du Telephone“, which occurred on October 3, 1978 in a bar in the Petit Canet in Marseille. That evening, three masked and armed men entered the Bar du Telephone and knock down everyone present. Ten people in total are killed and only one manages to escape. This would be demolished a few years later. The question has never been clarified, the various hypotheses having been excluded one by one. This murder inspired the film The telephone bar in 1980 – most notably with Daniel Duval who played Olivier Marchal 36 Quai des Goldsmiths in 2004 -, and is part of the events of The French by Cédric Jimenez.
Olivier Marchal starts filming the sequel to his cult film
“My most violent film”
With the flashforward unfolding tragedy Bronx and with this sequence, Olivier Marchal then unfolds a thriller in which one score follows another. In the interview he gave us when the film was broadcast on Netflix (video at the top of the article), Olivier Marchal recognized this Bronx it was his most violent film. And you even had to remove a sequence after test screenings about which audiences, producers and Netflix had expressed serious reservations.
It’s just “dark”, and then it’s ultraviolent, I think it’s my most violent film, with “Braquo”. (…) It’s true that in “Bronx”, when I shot the family suicide scene, there was a scene in which he opened the door and we saw the two children in their pajamas and… Those from Netflix, my producers at Gaumont, after the two public test projects which worked well, people said: “we love the film but this scene is very shocking for us”, while we saw nothing, we only saw an open door, the children, and we heard the two shots off-screen, it’s true that the audience was shocked and so I cut this sequence.
Source: Cine Serie
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