The Police Procedural Breaks New Ground in Maiwenn’s Polisse
Actress-turned-director Maïwenn, best known to American audiences for a supporting role in her ex-husband Luc Besson‘s The Fifth Element, is poised with her Cannes-winning Polisse, which opens this Friday, to leap into a class of heralded young international auteurs. As much a revealing picture of the diverse, modern French middle class as it is a ripped-from-the-headlines police procedural epic, it presents the roller coaster day-to-day reality of a devoted but all-too-flawed group of cops in the Parisian Child Protection Unit as they investigate various crimes against minors, depicting their lives with a delicate but surprisingly effective mix of gallows humor and harrowing tragedy. […]
by Brandon Harris on May 17, 2012