Un homme en fuite

After 1980 companies in the West farm out/outsource their factories to countries where they pay MUCH lower wages making local populations redundant unemployed destitute

This has been going on for 40 years now And the results are shown here in this community in the Ardennes where the last factory is about to close much unrest anger etc etc

This is a Robin Hood tale about a local bad boy from a broken home who does a heist on a company van kills a driver and runs off shot with 4 million Euros goes into hiding ...

It triggers off a chain of events; involving a childhood friend also the return of a local lass now a gendarme who will have to deal with her allegiances to her job versus her roots

Happy to see Marion Barbeau back in the saddle as an actress. Had loved her performance in En movimiento (2022) for me one of the best films of last 10 years. Anyway she is here and does a decent job as do the others

But the star of the film here is the story itself and the misery visited upon the population by the economic brutality of the system

This will resonate loudly in France right now; a country fractured by economic inequalities which have led the nation to fight the government from many different angles ...

Folks interested in social matters should make a beeline for this one; it is not a masterpiece but a very good social commentary.