I had recorded this movie without much expectation (not really my kind of stuff) and it stayed half a year "on the plank" before I eventually watched it. It blew my mind. I loved everything about it. The actors - every one of them: outstanding performances. Yann the creepy neighbour: wowowow. Sandrine Kinberlain: absolutely great. Vincent Cassel: breathtaking. So far I actually disliked him as an actor (preferred his father very much), but in Fleuve Noir, he is astonishingly perfect. I give it a 10, because there is nothing in the film that I would like done otherwise. In my eyes, it is just right. Every bit of it. The acting is right, the filming is right, the story telling is right, the dialogues are right, the sound recording is right. About the latter: you hear Cassel's heavy breathing, it's as if you were him. It helps appearance and motion to make you intimatedly feel his constant state of inebriation. Almost unbearable.
Review of Black Tide
