Today we introduce a crime, thriller, and mystery film released in 2000: Undercurrents
Photographed by France. Directed by Matthew Kasowitz Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring Jean Reno ..... Pierre Niemans
Vincent Cassel Vincent Cassel ..... Max Kerkerian
Nadia Farès ..... Fanny Ferreira (as Nadia Fares)
Dominique Sanda ..... Sister Andrée
Karim Belkhadra ..... Captain Dahmane
Jean-Pierre Cassel Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Dr. Bernard Chernezé
Didier Flamand ..... Dean
Fran?ois Levantal ..... Pathologist
Francine Bergé ..... Headmistress
Philippe Nahon ..... Man at Petrol Station
Laurent Lafitte ..... Dean's Son
Robert Gendreu ..... Cemetery Warden
Movie Description: On the same day, two mysterious criminal cases occurred at the top of the Alpine mountain and in the mountain chapel 300 kilometers away. Pierre, who investigates one of the perverted homicides, is an experienced detective who has superhuman intuition about crime and has never made a mistake. While investigating at a higher institution of higher learning in the Alps, he discovers the school's hidden secrets, while the investigator of another cemetery destruction case, Max, is a young policeman full of energy who likes to challenge danger, and when he goes to the monastery to investigate, he discovers that there is also a shocking truth behind the case. Two seemingly unrelated cases have linked Pierre and Max because of their delicate connection to each other. As they traced the trail, the lingering shadow of death followed closely, and finally they found that they had only one chance to unlock the frozen secrets of the mountain.
Average review score: 6.8
The film's director, Matthew Kasowitz, is the most high-profile young director in the French film industry today, who can not only write and direct, but also deeply perform as an actor. In 1993, when Kasowitz released his first feature film, Metisse, he had been working in film for eight years at the age of 25. He went on to release La Haine and Assassins, and together with Milk Chocolate, he called the "Rebel Trilogy." Among them, "Hate" pushed Casovez's reputation to the peak. Once the film was released, it not only shocked all of France, but also became known as the hope of French cinema in decline. The film also earned Casovez the Best Director Award at that year's Cannes Film Festival. Like some famous directors such as Hitchcoff and Quentin Tarantino, Casovez sometimes likes to appear in his own films as an actor and also likes to make cameo appearances in films by other directors. In 1997, Casovez played a gangster in his friend Luis Besson's film The Fifth Element.
The film's male protagonist, Pierre, is played by Jean Renault, arguably one of the best hardcore boys in France today. His outstanding performances in the films "Blue Sea and Sky", "Killer Leon" and "Female Prisoner Nikita" were not only favored by fanatics in France, but also helped him successfully enter Hollywood. This time, Jean Renault played a detective with keen intuition but a tragic fate in "Undercurrents", such a tragic heroic character can be described as abounding in Jean Renault's previous works. The character in "Undercurrents" can be said to be handy for Jean Renault, and it is interpreted as a three-pointer.
"Undercurrents" was released in France at the end of last year with rave reviews, exceeding one million viewers in the first week and becoming the 2000 French blockbuster, and then successfully landed in the United States, which was also warmly sought after by American film fans. Because the film is a Hollywood-style detective suspense film invested by the United States and filmed by the French team, it integrates the delicate and elegant characteristics of French films, good at creating atmosphere, and the grand and realistic action scenes that American films are good at producing, so that the audience can obtain both audiovisual and psychological satisfaction.
Undercurrents used France's almost top-of-the-line lineup. Jean Renault, who played Detective Pierre, established his status as an international movie star with "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", "Blue Sea Love", and "Mission Impossible". His outstanding acting skills and chivalrous tough guy image are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he is praised by French President Jacques Chirac as "one of the actors who can best represent French cinema". In the film, Jean Renault personally went deep into the 40-meter-deep glacier crack to shoot, chased the murderer in a storm of -15 ° C, even the camera shot was broken, and the film was frozen inside, but he still let the audience see the most brilliant acting skills. Vincent Casesson, who plays Max, also starred in the international film Joan of Arc and is now one of the most popular students in the French film industry. He filmed "Undercurrents" in extremely harsh conditions, had to overcome alpine reactions every day, flew in a helicopter between snowy peaks at an altitude of 3500 meters, and broke his nose bone in a fierce fight scene, so that he had to stop filming for 15 days, but his wonderful performance won unanimous praise.