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Drift Away impresses due to its undidactic central character study -- Laurent's journey is one he must make alone, and the surrounding cinematic stylings serve to open his world to the...
Directed by Xavier Beauvois. Laurent, a young brigade commander in a gendarmerie in a small town in Normandy is planning his wedding with Marie, his partner and mother of his daughter. He loves his job despite facing social misery on a daily basis. One day, a farmer who might try to kill himself runs away. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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Mar 2, 2021 · A Normandy-set cop movie with far more on its mind than simply solving the case, Xavier Beauvois’ Berlinale competition entry “Drift Away” examines the toll that law enforcement takes on an...
‘Drift Away’ (‘Albatros’): Film Review | Berlin 2021. French actor-director Xavier Beauvois' latest feature stars Jérémie Renier as a small-town gendarme whose career takes an unwanted turn.
Laurent (Jérémie Renier), a police officer in a small town in Normandy, plans to marry Marie, with whom he has a daughter. Then one day, his life is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a farmer threatening to commit suicide.
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Mar 2, 2021 · Review: Drift Away. by Fabien Lemercier. 02/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: Xavier Beauvois signs his name to an intimate story which also sounds a social alarm in an artfully pared-down film bursting with heart about a gendarme on the Normandy coast. Jérémie Renier in Albatros.
Cue a weepy melodrama which literally drifts away on itself (“The ocean will console your father,” a confused Poulette is told when Laurent absconds to the sea) and a rather cornball and convenient bit of magical realism for the salvation of Laurent’s soul.
