I just caught up with Olivier Marchal's debut as a writer director having thoroughly enjoyed his later highly accomplished 36 Quai des Orfevres. He's an interesting filmmaker having spent a decade or so in the police force during which time he took acting lessons in his down time and eventually began appearing on screen in mostly policiers and eventually writing and directing Gangsters his first feature as writer/director. Okay the story of two highly trained officers going undercover to root out the bent cops in a special unit is hardly new but Marchal brings insider knowledge to bear and has been lucky in his casting with Richard Anconina and Anne Parillaud excellent as the two undercover agents. Definitely worth catching.
Review of Gangsters
