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- Rambling but strangely compelling, Oh Mercy!’s documentary bedrock gives the investigation at the heart of the film a real authenticity. From around its midpoint, this uneven film becomes a riveting, compassionate interrogation drama.
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Christmas night in Roubaix. Police chief Daoud roams the city. Burn out cars, violent altercations... In the face of poverty, deception and distress, Daoud knows who is lying and who is telling ...
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- Léa Seydoux
- Arnaud Desplechin
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May 30, 2019 · Oh Mercy! first look: police and poverty vie in a sombre French noir. Arnaud Desplechin looks into the past and out from the shadows in a dour new detective story, weaving a web of mystery and misery which doesn’t quite connect all the dots. Elisabet Cabeza.
May 23, 2019 · Desplechin and cinematographer Irina Lubtchansky flex their formal muscles on numerous occasions; a close-up of Marie in the backseat of a police vehicle has the camera simultaneously zooming in and shifting depth à la “ Vertigo.”
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May 22, 2019 · Oh Mercy! is the story of a washed-up city as much as it is a true crime tale. Rambling but strangely compelling, Oh Mercy!’s documentary bedrock gives the investigation at the heart of the...
Oh Mercy! which is part of the Alliance Française French Film Festival 2020 is a true-crime film from director Arnaud Desplechin which shows the petty and more serious crimes investigated by the police of Roubaix, a town near the Belgian border.
Oh Mercy! (Roubaix, Une Lumière), unlike most crime procedural movies, is never cold. There is a glow of mercy shimmering and pulsating through all the crime reports and investigations and insights. Arnaud Desplechin returns once again to Roubaix, the town in northern France where he grew up.
This latest could be accused of neither flaw; indeed, in some respects, in its straightforward, robustly realist look at the daily working lives of a couple of cops in Roubaix, an...
