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Full Speed
from Strand Releasing
starring Élodie Bouchez, Stéphane Rideau, Pascal Cervo, Mezziane Bardadi, Romain Auger
directed by Gaël Morel

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Convoluted
  This is a story that I found extremely confusing. It doesn't matter whether a movie is intended to have gay or straight issues, but you would like to know which direction the main characters take you. Unfortunately, I found no peace watching this movie. It is extremely tragic (as someone gets shot to death right off the beginning of the movie), depressing, and depicts racism (which shows that this problem is universal). There is one consolation, the director must have found all of the most beautiful Arab... more info

• "Full Speed" Moves Too Slowly
  In "Full Speed" we have another French film, apparently made on a low budget, that ultimately doesn't hold together very well. Perhaps something was lost in translation but I was left wanting more, not sure why what happened happened and unwilling to look at the movie again to try to put it together.
  The film is directed by Gael Morel and stars Mezziane Bardadi as Samir, a French Arab who has recently lost a lover because of an accident. He falls for Quentin (Pascal Cervo) who has just had his first... more info

• Love: Four Divertimenti
  Gaël Morel co-wrote (with Catherine Corsini) and directed this very French exploration of the manifestations of love in a style that feels more like eavesdropping on private encounters than on a linear drama. The plot is actually tightly woven around each of the four characters, at the same time giving the effect of four characters' viewpoints on love.
  Samir (Mezziane Bardadi) is a French Arab from Algeria who opens the film in a tender frolic with his 'blood brother' and quickly witnesses the... more info

• Relevant Today
  Full Speed is a wonderfully energetic film that provides viewers with glimpses of the issues that (literally) have exploded in France in the last few days. Stephane Rideau is an excellent actor, and I think that this film captures his (then) burgeoning acting range. Gael Morel provided me with a sense of contemporary diverse French youth culture. I highly recommend this film.

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