Polisse2012
Polisse (2012)
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Critic Consensus: Polisse is a gripping and powerful procedural drama filled with fine acting and unflinching eye for truth and brutality.
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Cast
as Nadine
as Fred
as Iris
as Mathieu
as Melissa
as Francesco
as Chrys
as Sue Ellen
as Balloo
as Bamako
as Nora
as Gabriel
as Mme de la Faublaise
as Beauchard

as Beauchard
as M. de la Faublaise
as Herve
as Franck
as Céline

as Alice
as Alex
as Disgraced Mother
as Drug-addicted Mother

as P.E. Teacher
as Sister Melissa
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Critic Reviews for Polisse
All Critics (80) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (70) | Rotten (10)
[O]ne of the best based-on-facts police pictures.
Whatever you think of it, you won't be neutral.

Bluntly edited, with no hand-holding transitional scenes, the film is an intimate portrait of an idealistic, understaffed, sometimes wrongheaded team battling youth prostitution, thievery rings and adult predators from every class of society.
"Polisse" draws us uncomfortably close to a taboo subject then rewards us with real nourishment.
Has an infectious energy and aims for a bottom-up, slice-of-life air characterised by naturalistic performances and a fly-on-the-wall shooting style.
It's messy, boring, funny, suspenseful, touching, jubilant and tragic.

Audience Reviews for Polisse
Investing in a documentary tone with a handheld camera, this realistic drama depicts the everyday life of the policemen/women in the division of crimes against children in Paris, and is a fascinating collection of situations that show their work and the relationship between them.
Super Reviewer
Whenever something bad happens to a child in Paris, the Child Protection Unit is called in to investigate. These are their stories. (Sorry. Couldn't resist.) With the exception of a couple of music video like sequences, "Polisse" attempts to use a documentary like realism in a story that is framed by Melissa(Maiwenn, who also directed, and not at all well), a photographer, being assigned to follow the unit. Sadly, the movie is something of a mess with too many characters to adequately keep track of in showing how the frustrations of the job get to the detectives with too much emphasis away from the job. That and the movie's idea of high drama being yelling and screaming lead to only one case that truly resonates. And that's not to mention one huge cliche that had been dynamited to bits fifty years ago and one truly WTF ending.

Super Reviewer
'Polisse'. Unflinching and raw in capturing the intimacy, camaraderie and harrowing nature of a Child Protection Unit's daily lives.

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