The Young Lieutenant (2005)

I am not surprised that quite a few of the movie watchers have hard time with this flick. If you are addicted to car chases, random explosions and endless and mindless entertainment, this is definitely not the right movie for you. I, myself can't abide Hollywood garbage. So, I reach out to the rest of the world for quality art movies." The Young Lieutenant" is a perfect little gem of a movie. Even without all the obvious staples of the genre, there is more power and emotion in every single scene than in all of the stupid, badly written, computer generated Hollywood excuses for a movie together. Great actors and strong raw feelings and life as it is, without adornment. I am happy with that.

This is less about the crime, then the day to day minutiae of police work, in particular the growing relationship between an eager young lieutenant, and his tough, ex-alcoholic boss – Nathalie Baye, in an excellent, uncharacteristically dark performance. There's no romance between the two, just an evolving connection. In the meantime, the lieutenant's home life is a mess – his wife is understandably angry because he requested his Paris posting, far from their home and her work, without asking her. This sad, low key, almost documentary like film, without music or fancy shots, is an insightful look into the people who face crime every day. Dense enough that I'd gladly re-see it.

Extremely realistic. So much so that it's almost miserable to watch. We see a young and inexperienced police detective adjust to the aspects of his new job - from working through a pistol stoppage on the range, to knocking on doors looking for information about a murder, interviewing people who barely speak his language and trying to integrate with his new coworkers. We also see an experienced police veteran working through the problems that prolonged living in a stressful environment have produced as she returns to work after a two-year sabbatical. She takes the young Antoine with her throughout the course of a murder investigation, and the illustration of the dichotomy between them is nearly perfect. Avoided are the cliché kicking down of doors, Miami Vice / Hawaii 5-0-style firefights, Joe Friday detectives and "arch villains" that typically plague police films. The overall feeling that I had throughout the movie was monotony and despair as I identified with Antoine's feelings of separation, anxiety and of being overwhelmed. We see equally Commandant Vaudieu's sobriety struggle in scenes where her section is gathering at a bar after work for drinks while she orders a glass of mineral water. It's not a happy movie, it's not even entertaining, but it is realistic, extremely well played, and it is a moving, gritty drama that does for PJs what La Chambre des Officiers did for soldiers. It humanises them.

Of the check french cinema - a realism rarely seen in the cinema and a magnificent composition in particular Nathalie BAYE. The reality of the young provincial cop arriving in capital is striking of truth. We suffer from these stabs and we curse this youth which take this young cop towards his loss. That feels(smells) the INNKEEPER in L627... He(it) is striking of the truth considers. Bravo to the director and has his comedians. To see to understand(include) cop's realité!!! The motivations of this young policeman make can be dumped but very often have entrainé the vocation has numerous policemen.. Quotation blasé person of these colleagues experimented are just(right) and nevertheless law of caricatures usually conveyed. The Arabic cop who malgrè its speech in the meal of integrated policeman does not ring as the truth and the proof made it when he pushes aside(knocks down) l former(ancient) who treats him as Bicot towards the end of the film, denoting that everything is far from being a pink and this film evite this kind(genre) of cliché(picture) with correctness. The final silence Or we have l impression(printing) that Nathalie Baye wishes to speak to us is just bluffing has new. Anything n left at random and has to wonder how the realizer was so well able to make apparaitre the threads of this inequitable and thankless job.. The sink of The Seine linked with the grey of this history which never sinks into the every white or every Black