I like this ambitious and also clumsy French film, which the most obvious mistake is to use French scores, soundtracks of the sixties for a 1900's atmosphere, It is totally lousy, I don't understand why doing this. Imagine Matin Scorcese using Lady Gaga songs for a historical film taking place in 1930? But besides this, I don't dislike the movie, epecially the lead female character. I prefered L'EMPEREUR DE PARIS however, for the nearly same settings and overall atmosphere, though not the exactly same period: 1800's for Jean François Richet's film and 1900's for this one. Apaches were the young hoodlums in Paris, suburb ghettos in the early 1900's. The main good thing about this film is that it is not cheesy, but tragic, sad. Not so many features were made about this period, except CASQUE D'OR, back in the fifties, and also a short film: LE REVE DES APACHES, a couple of years ago.
Review of Apaches
