Yann Brion’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, dark, intense, layered, gritty
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Yann Brion has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s.
From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...
Dir. Frédéric Schoendoerffer · With Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, André Dussollier
Málaga, southern Spain. Seven men, divided into four cars, set off with a large drug shipment towards Creil, a city near Paris; a routine mission that will be complicated by a fatal sequence of events.
Dir. Frédéric Schoendoerffer · With Benoît Magimel, Reem Kherici, Tewfik Jallab
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