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Parts. The film is divided into two parts, with various titles: Mesrine: L'instinct de mort (French for "Mesrine: Instinct for Death"); known in English as Public Enemy Number One (Part One), Mesrine: Part 1 - Death Instinct and Mesrine: Killer Instinct.
Mesrine: Killer Instinct -- the first of two parts -- charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces.
- (35K)
- Action, Biography, Crime
- Jean-François Richet
- 2008-10-22
Two-part biopic based on the autobiography of notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine. Born in 1936, Mesrine (Vincent Cassell) transformed himself from a middle-class Algerian war veteran to a career criminal of international notoriety, before eventually earning the dubious honour of being named Public Enemy Number One by the French government.
- (322)
- PAL, Subtitled
- 2 min
- French
The two films which combine to tell this lacerating story are both fascinating examples of the genre, but also a provocative examination of the nature of celebrity — something that the violent and charismatic Mesrine himself cultivated.
Dec 12, 2014 · Books. The autobiography of one of France’s most notorious criminals. Mesrine’s mugshot, 1973. On the morning of November 2, 1979, a gold BMW pulled up behind a blue truck stopped at a stoplight in Porte de Clignancourt, in northern Paris. After a moment, a tarp covering the back of the truck opened to reveal four men with rifles.
Thirty years after French police gunned him down in a spectacular shootout, his infamy lives on. Equal parts thriller and biopic, Mesrine remains faithful to its central character, a dynamic figure who is by no means a model protagonist. international title: Mesrine: Part 1 - Killer Instinct. original title:
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Aug 25, 2010 · Jacques Mesrine was a brutal man who shot dead 39 victims during his 20-year run as a bank robber and kidnapper. That total doesn’t include the prisoners, possibly dozens, executed point blank after they’d been tortured during France’s war against Algeria. Mesrine escaped from two high-security prisons, kidnapped a millionaire, broke back ...
