It premiered at Cannes last year – and won the jury prize (it was nominated for the Palme d’or); French writer-director-actress Maiwenn’s “emotionally compelling cop dramedy” Polisse.
Why do I care? First, it looks really good, and though I don’t know enough about French films, I’ll be buying this one.
Riccardo Scamarcio’s in it.
At 32 Scamarcio seems determined to “make hay while the sun shines”, as my grandfather used to say (does anyone say that anymore?). Scamarcio will appear in six movies in 2012, two of them English language films ( Woody Allen’s Nero Fiddled and The Blind Bastard’s Cub with Rosario Dawson and Lenny Kravitz).
Polisse opened yesterday in Italy – the Hollywood Reporter called this movie “one which should finally expand Maiwenn’s audience beyond French borders” so maybe we’ll get a look at it here in the US – along with Scamarcio speaking French. And looking really handsome.
The Hollywood Reporters says that Polisse is “like a whole season of (HBO’s) The Wire packed into a single two-hour-plus film” (and my husband and I are currently on season 5 of that one, plodding through the series one after the other every night before we go to bed). Polisse, about the world of pedophile crime investigations, concentrates on the strain the job puts on policemen and women who deal day in day out with hard knocks cases and bureaucratic pigeonholing, and how that affects their generally chaotic home lives.
Doesn’t sound like comedy material, but apparently it’s very funny.
I Love Italian Everything 