While working on the roof of a morphine addict, Sébastien, a Georgian immigrant to France, overhears discussion of a shady job that the addict hopes will earn him a large amount of money. When his employer then dies of an overdose, leaving him out of pocket, Sébastien manages to obtain the secretive instructions for this mysterious job and follow them - with little idea just what he's getting into.
Director Géla Babluani says that 13 (Tzameti) was inspired by his own experiences emigrating from the violent and turbulent Georgia of the 1990s to peaceful and stable France. The result is a minimalist and noir-ish film that depicts a French underworld where the rich bet on the lives of the desperate. Tense and draining, there's a terrible veracity to the way Babluani imagines Western Europe as a place of obvious civility and hidden brutality.
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Sounds brilliant. BTW, recently enjoyed Pierrot le Fou (or something like that but spelled differently)
You either mean Jean-Luc Goddard's Pierrot le Fou, or Matthieu Kassovitz's Fierrot le Pou (neither of which I've actually seen). :-P
Always meaning to watch some Goddard, but never get around to it...
Indeed it's the Goddard one. He's absolutely brilliant, subversive and mad. I would suggest you start off with Weekend. It's his most revolutionary film and one of my all time favourites. Also scrrened mere days before the uprising of '68.
Check. I just added that one to my queue. More recommendations please.
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