Short film
The Disarray of a Neighbourhood’s Cop
2014 · 30 min
A quiet, fragmented drift through a man's empty hours, by turns mundane and piercingly sad.
- Directed by
- Emmanuel Marre
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Catherine Salée, Bilal Aya
- Overview
- In 17 chapters, the film sketches the distress of a local agent after his day's work. Among others: body searches, the inner emptiness, Wednesday afternoons at the Fnac, the beloved and lost woman, coaching, the hot lines of internet service providers, respect in public space, the "7 words of Christ on the cross", the recycling of glass bottles, melancholy.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, bleak, satirical and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Isolation, loneliness, work, identity
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Emmanuel Marre
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Catherine Salée, Bilal Aya
