Mesrine (2008)
- Original title
- L'Instinct de mort
- Directed by
- Jean-François Richet
- Genre
- drama film, crime film, biographical film
- Country
- France, Italy, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 1,010 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a two-part biographical crime film about Jacques Mesrine, a notorious French gangster. It follows his life from his early criminal acts to his rise as a public enemy.
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What happens
Mesrine is a two-part 2008 French biographical crime film on the life of French gangster Jacques Mesrine, directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Richet. The first part, L'instinct de mort, was based on Mesrine's autobiographical book L'instinct de mort, while the second part, L'ennemi public No 1, detailed Mesrine's criminal career. The film has earned comparisons to the American film Scarface, and Vincent Cassel earned rave reviews for his portrayal of Mesrine. The film is divided into two parts, with various titles: Mesrine: L'instinct de mort (French for "Mesrine: Instinct for Death"); known in English as Public Enemy Number One (Part One), Mesrine: Part 1 - Death Instinct and Mesrine: Killer Instinct Mesrine: L'ennemi public No 1 (French for "Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1"); known in English as Public Enemy Number One (Part Two), Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1 and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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