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 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Mesrine : L’instinct de mort & Mesrine : L’ennemi public nº1) Official Selection: Rendez-vous with French Cinema (2009), Palm Springs International Film Festival (2009), Toronto International Film Festival (2008), Tokyo International Film Festival (2008) Best Actor Award for Vincent Cassel at the Tokyo International Film Festival (2008) 2009 César for Best Director and Best Actor for Vincent Cassel Los Angeles Premiere Thriller/Biopic France/Canada/Italy, 2008 In French with English subtitles 35mm/Scope/Color/Dolby DTS/113 min + 132 min Directed by: Jean-Francois Richet Written by: Abdel Raouf Dafri Cinematography by: Robert Gantz  Editing by: Hervé SchneidOriginal Music by: Marco Bel Trami Produced by: Thomas Langmann Production Company: La Petite Reine / Reine Sales Co-production: M6 Films, Remstar, Novo RPI International sales: KINOLOGY 65 rue de Clichy 75009 Paris Tel: +33 9 51 47 43 44 U.S. Distributor: SENATOR DISTRIBUTION www.mesrine-lefilm.com With: Vincent Cassel (Jacques Mesrine), Cécile De France (Jeanne Schneider), Gérard Depardieu (Guido), Ludivine Sagnier (Sylvia), Mathieu Amalric (François), Gérard Lanvin (Charlie), Elena Anaya (Sofia), Myriam Boyer (Mesrine’s mother), Anne Consigny (The Lawyer), Michel Duchaussoy (Mesrine’s Father), Roy Dupuis (Jean-Paul Mercier), Olivier Gourmet (Commissaire Broussard), Gilles Lellouche (Paul), Florence Thomassin (Sarah) Few people have marked the collective French consciousness like Jacques Mesrine, a charismatic and megalomaniac gangster who reached rock star status in the 1970s in France and Canada through a series of robberies, bloody abductions, extravagant escapes and a knack for manipulating the media. Based on Death Instinct, the autobiography he wrote in prison, Public Enemy Number One portrays Mesrine from his formative years during the war in Algeria to his spectacular death, being gunned down in his car by police sharpshooters. Led by French star actor Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises, Ocean’s Twelve and Thirtheen) as Mesrine, the film boasts an impressive cast, including Gérard Depardieu as his mentor Guido, Cécile de France (A Secret (COL•COA 2008), Avenue Montaigne (COL•COA 2006), Ludivine Sagnier (Swimming Pool, A Girl Cut in Two) and Mathieu Amalric (Munich, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). ABOUT JEAN-FRANÇOIS RICHET Born in the Parisian suburbs, Jean-François Richet grew up in the projects and worked in a factory before making films. This working class experience and a passion for the works of Russian masters Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov led him to write and direct two acclaimed first features, the politically militant Inner City (1995) and Ma 6-T va crack-er (1997), an almost prophetic look at a potential explosion of violence in the Parisian suburbs. After his third feature All About Love (2001), a love story set in the suburbs, he was hired to remake Assault on Precinct 13 in the U.S (2005), a fast-paced action thriller starring Ethan Hawke, Gabriel Byrne and Laurence Fishburne. With the critical and commercial success of Public Enemy, he confirms his talent for tackling social and political themes in action films. PRESS “The movie…quotes from so many of its American-made forerunners, especially “Bonnie and Clyde,” that it is a virtual compendium of gangster-movie allusions. But they are woven so confidently into a popular epic built around a charismatic star performance that even the most obvious references don’t seem bothersome.” (The New York Times) “This gangster epic reflects the current predilection of French filmmakers for genre flicks and commercial versus arthouse. If New Wavers Truffaut and Godard found inspiration in American cinema, well, now a fresh generation of Gallic filmmakers is again looking across the pond—Variety dubbed them “French New Wave 2.0.” (indieWIRE) “The wild life of France's most notorious modern-day criminal, Jacques Mesrine, is delivered with the rushed urgency of an overnight package in "Public Enemy Number One." (Variety) |