ithaka

6y

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Can’t recommend this two part movie enough as I unfortunately never see them mentioned.

This real story stars Vincent Cassel (the lead in La Haine) as Jacques Mesrine: France’s most notorious famous gangster oat, often namedropped and referenced in french rap songs.

He had a long run, was seen as a Robin Hood figure by the people but then did some dirty things like torturing a journalist because he didn’t like what he said and left him for dead.

Jacques Mesrine never stopped and died on the run at 42 I believe, the less you know about how that went down the best it is, the way they set this up in the movie is so f***ing good.

First part is about his early life and how it all came to be into the criminal life, the second part is far more into the meat of the legend and big s*** he pulled off.

They’re two great french movies about a real french story with a great french actor that went ham in this, got the weight and s*** to look like the dude.

@Bad_Finger_Boogie @Wahi @MacFoley @Soupvillain @Beach_kneega @proper @Danny @Ground @LuJo

ithaka

6y

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Can’t recommend this two part movie enough as I unfortunately never see them mentioned.

This real story stars Vincent Cassel (the lead in La Haine) as Jacques Mesrine: France’s most notorious famous gangster oat, often namedropped and referenced in french rap songs.

He had a long run, was seen as a Robin Hood figure by the people but then did some dirty things like torturing a journalist because he didn’t like what he said and left him for dead.

Jacques Mesrine never stopped and died on the run at 42 I believe, the less you know about how that went down the best it is, the way they set this up in the movie is so f***ing good.

First part is about his early life and how it all came to be into the criminal life, the second part is far more into the meat of the legend and big s*** he pulled off.

They’re two great french movies about a real french story with a great french actor that went ham in this, got the weight and s*** to look like the dude.

@Bad_Finger_Boogie @Wahi @MacFoley @Soupvillain @Beach_kneega @proper @Danny @Ground @LuJo

Saturday

6y

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/top-100-french-films-scfz-poll/

DEL634

6y

Added to watch list

ithaka

6y

I said Peter Pan figure but I meant Robin Hood, sorry about that lol I edited

Psychodrama

6y

la haine

ithaka

6y

You should watch Mesrine then

Psychodrama

6y

google searched it and it looks like a neo-noir film

will peep

thanks fam

ithaka

6y

Made a big post about it itt some page ago, long story short: same lead actor from La Haine and is about France’s real life most notorious gangster of all time 👌

Anytime brother, if you get around let me know your thoughts!

Psychodrama

6y

should I watch the 2 part movies or 84 one?

ithaka

6y

Oh sorry I forgot there was an old one from the 80s

I never saw that one so i couldn’t tell you, the one I recommended is the one from 2008, two part movie shot in one, it covers everything and has an amazing casting! won lots of awards back in France

Psychodrama

6y

oh nice!

''Grunwalskι's story'' scene was my fav part of la haine

I hope there's some deep philosophical s*** behind mesrine too

ithaka

6y

It’s based on a real life story so I wouldn’t go into a mindset expecting philosophical take from it, it’s a gangster Robin Hood tragic story really, I recommended because of Vincent Cassel

The less you know before hand the better, it’s so crazy to see s*** go down and take a second to say to yourself wow this actually happened in real life!

Psychodrama

6y

vincent is the man