Mesrine (1984 film)
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Director Andre Genoves Writer Andre Genoves Language French | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Biography, Crime, Drama Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 29 February 1984 (1984-02-29) Genres Biographical film, Drama, Crime Fiction Cast Nicolas Silberg (Jacques Mesrine), Caroline Aguilar (Sylvia Jeanjacquot), Gérard Sergue (François Besse), Michel Poujade (Le commissaire Broussard), Michel Beaune (Le commissaire Devos), (Lelièvre)Similar movies Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mesrine is a 1984 French film written and directed by André Génovès. A biographical film based on the life of Jacques Mesrine, it focuses on the eighteen months following his escape from La Santé Prison in May 1978 until his death in November 1979. Nicolas Silberg stars as the eponymous lead character.
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Film critic James Benefield of Little White Lies magazine regarded Mesrine as "a pretty ropey, half-baked biopic", inferior to the later 2008 film starring Vincent Cassel. Benefield criticized Génovès' "bland direction" and "lack of imagination", likening the film to a television production rather than a cinematic release, and noted that "the film fails to come to terms with Mesrine’s controversial glamour and celebrity". The Blood wrote a song about Mesrine which preceded both the 1984, and 2008 movies. The song featured on the 1983 album False Gestures For A Devious Public.
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