96 Heures (96
Hours) is a taut French thriller
directed by Frédéric Schoendoerffer and written by Philippe Isard from an
adaption by Yann Brion.
Starring Gérard Lanvin and
Niels Arestrup, it is the battle of wits between a Police Commissioner
(Lanvin), who got his promotion for capturing a cunning criminal (Arestrup) 3
years prior.
Now, the criminal has
turned the tables by setting up a supposed interogation by the Commissioner that
will take him out of prison for 96 hours.
He’s done this by threatening the life of the Commissioner’s wife (Anne
Consigny).
What the criminal wants to
know is who ratted on him, leading to his capture and the disappearance of the
$8 million he stole.
The tense standoff leads
to a surprising, open ending.
I give 96
Heures a 4 out of 5.
Hopefully, you can catch
it on Netflix, if it doesn’t get a U.S. release.
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