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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...
Jun 29, 2022 · 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 rather than force conflict or conclusion. Humans do not need help creating that for themselves. RATING: 4/5.
Recent reviews. 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.
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Mar 5, 2021 · Drift Away is a French Drama about a policeman trying to hold together his life after an incident complete storms his life into two.
All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Patrick Preziosi In Review Online. [The] existentialism is merely nominal, only evinced by a grossly manipulative twist that prioritizes...
‘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.
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.
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