Rent Racer and the Jailbird (2017)
3.0 of 5 from 96 ratings
2h 5min
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- Synopsis:
- When Gino (Matthias Schoenaerts) meets Benedicte (Adèle Exarchopoulos), it's love at first sight, passionate, unconditional and fiery. Benedicte is working in the family business, but is a fearless racing car driver on the side. Gino is cool, handsome and comes across as a normal guy...but he's hiding a secret. Together, they will have to fight against fate, reason and their own weaknesses to save their love.
- Actors:
- Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Eric De Staercke, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Nabil Missoumi, Thomas Coumans, Nathalie Van Tongelen, Fabien Magry, Sam Louwyck, Stefaan Degand, Kerem Can, Serge Riaboukine, Aïcha Cissé, Vincenzo De Jonghe, Gianni La Rocca, Corentin Lobet, Dimitry Loubry, Gaël Maleux, Guray Nalbant, Charley Pasteleurs
- Directors:
- Michaël R. Roskam
- Producers:
- Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Bart Van Langendonck
- Writers:
- Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré
- Aka:
- Le Fidèle
- Studio:
- Thunderbird Releasing
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Motor Racing Films, A Brief History of Film...
- Countries:
- Belgium
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 10/09/2018
- Run Time:
- 130 minutes
- Languages:
- French DTS 2.0, French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Interviews with Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Michaël R. Roskam
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Reviews (3) of Racer and the Jailbird
a great French crime caper BUT - Racer and the Jailbird review by si
But ruined by white subtitles on a more often than not white or bright back lit/sunny outdoor camera scene..**a black bar at the bottom of the screen would suffice in order to follow the rapid subtitles/dialogue translation/plot.
Don't bother with this if you don't understand French..very disappointing aspect of this potentially great movie !
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Clichéd and Boring - Racer and the Jailbird review by Alphaville
He’s a bank robber, she’s a racing driver. You don’t need any spoilers to guess the plot. It’s a cliché from start to finish. Maybe it could work if the characters held any interest. They don’t. It might work if the heist or racing scenes were filmed in an interesting way. They aren’t. The English title has replaced the original French title of Le Fidèle to make it sound more exciting. It isn’t. Only someone with the calibre of a Michael Mann could give this any life.
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Mish mash of action, love and melancholy - Racer and the Jailbird review by EP
This is not a "happy" film. It is a tragic one.
The film has subtitles.
All starts cool enough with a pretty girl racing around in a Porsche 911 - great. Then she meets a handsome but obviously dodgy geezer and they have a whirlwind romance, he won't tell her what he gets up to when he's away and things start to go wrong.
Later the film gets more dark and after the suspense of heists etc ends it just gets plain depressing and rather non believable.
The trailer for this film makes it look really exciting and like a totally different sort of film so I was rather let down.
It's not terrible, just rather odd. I give 2 stars not 1 for some originality across genres but ultimately the film fails for me.
Ed
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