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Mar 2, 2021 · ‘Drift Away’ Review: A Police Officer Comes Unmoored in This Thoughtful French Drama. 'Of Gods and Men' helmer Xavier Beauvois asks audiences to empathize with a well-meaning French gendarme...
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 audience...
Synopsis. 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.
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- Xavier Beauvois
Mar 3, 2021 · Drift Away follows Laurent (Jérémie Renier), an experienced Normandy cop who is starting to take the daily stresses of his job home with him. His pregnant partner, Marie (Marie-Julie Maille,...
- Xavier Beauvois
Drama. 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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- Jérémie Renier
- Xavier Beauvois
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.
Jun 29, 2022 · Drift Away (Albatros) – Berlinale 2021 Review. Sometimes, a story is less about whether someone is guilty or innocent than it is about the pressures and perceptions surrounding and following an ambiguous action. The local police chief, Laurent (Jérémie Renier), seems to have his life on track.
