Having enjoyed French Action Thrillers like Point Blank (2010-also reviewed) in the past,I keep a look out for other similar titles. Whilst seeing it get trashed,I read in review for Sleepless (2017) that it was a remake of a superior French flick,which led to me buying the disc. Nearing the end of ICM's French Viewing Challenge,I felt it was time for a sleepless viewing.
View on the film:
Rolling out across a night club over one night, co-writer/(with Olivier Douyere and Nicolas Saada) director Frederic Jardin & Clint Eastwood's cinematographer since Blood Work (1997) Tom Stern charge the Thriller atmosphere with hovering panning shots following Vincent in the middle of the cramped partying crowds. In the confine spaces of the back rooms in the club, Jardin and editor Christophe Pinel give the action scenes a chunky crunch, in snappy edits and up-close shots catching Vincent's desperation to wiggle out of each battle,along with a fun use of objects around the place, (such as in the kitchen and the dance room) giving the fights an unpredictable liveliness. Whilst some tracks skip on glaring plot holes, (why does the club hardly have any CCTV?) the writers hit the beats on keeping Vincent's mind-set straight-line towards saving his son, and lining it with snarling gangster dogs and morally lax cops round every corner blocking Vincent from his goal. Rumbling round every inch of the club, Tomer Sisley gives a terrific, adrenaline fuelled performance as Vincent, who Sisley keeps running piecing himself back together after each scrap over an endless night.
View on the film:
Rolling out across a night club over one night, co-writer/(with Olivier Douyere and Nicolas Saada) director Frederic Jardin & Clint Eastwood's cinematographer since Blood Work (1997) Tom Stern charge the Thriller atmosphere with hovering panning shots following Vincent in the middle of the cramped partying crowds. In the confine spaces of the back rooms in the club, Jardin and editor Christophe Pinel give the action scenes a chunky crunch, in snappy edits and up-close shots catching Vincent's desperation to wiggle out of each battle,along with a fun use of objects around the place, (such as in the kitchen and the dance room) giving the fights an unpredictable liveliness. Whilst some tracks skip on glaring plot holes, (why does the club hardly have any CCTV?) the writers hit the beats on keeping Vincent's mind-set straight-line towards saving his son, and lining it with snarling gangster dogs and morally lax cops round every corner blocking Vincent from his goal. Rumbling round every inch of the club, Tomer Sisley gives a terrific, adrenaline fuelled performance as Vincent, who Sisley keeps running piecing himself back together after each scrap over an endless night.