How do you turn a hostage situation concerning cocaine, eviction notices, and Algerian assassins into a stage for bureaucratic ineptitude and slum reform? Ask Angelo Cianci because his film Dernier étage gauche gauche [Top Floor, Left Wing] does it and more. A darkly comic take on generally serious circumstances, a normal day in the life of bailiff François Etcheveria (Hippolyte Girardot) becomes one he’ll never forget. The first apartment of twelve on his list to evict and catalogue property for compensation, no one could have known Mohand’s (Mohamed Fellag) home would be hiding the kinds of secrets it is. One desperate maneuver by son Salem (Aymen Saïdi), though, lands Etcheveria in the bathroom, tied up by tape, and looking down the barrel of a gun.
Both action and comedy start right after an opening credit sequence shows our main players passing each other on the street. Mohand is coming home as the...
Both action and comedy start right after an opening credit sequence shows our main players passing each other on the street. Mohand is coming home as the...
- 10/6/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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