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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 impoverished ...
- Arnaud Desplechin
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.
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Sep 27, 2019 · Such is the case with the typically self-reflexive Arnaud Desplechin and his unusual new film, Oh Mercy!, a rather uniquely French take on the police procedural–historically, something of a storytelling sandbox for the country’s prevailing auteurs, e.g. Henri-Georges Clouzot (Le Corbeau) or Maurice Pialat (Police). Well-defined ...
- Kyle Pletcher
May 23, 2019 · Shot with an interesting, raw, and pared down visual style, Oh Mercy! would have no doubt benefited more from focusing on the iconic figure of commissioner Daoud. Produced by Why Not Productions and co-produced by Arte France Cinéma, Oh Mercy! Is sold internationally by Wild Bunch.
May 22, 2019 · Arnaud Desplechin’s police procedural feels oddly like the pilot for a series, bigger on atmosphere and potential character development than the murder meant to be the film's focus. By Jay ...
