After completion of Budapest (2018) and some episodes of Gangs of LondonXavier Gens comes back with Farang. A beating film in the Thai Moisturizer, presented at the NIFFFAnd just coming out on the screens.
V as Vendetta
After serving a sentence in France, Sam (Nassim Lyes) is reliving in Thailand. Between a chain of small jobs, a accomplished family life and many projects, his past will catch him up where he least expects.
Pure batton film with ultra impressive choreography, Xavier People offers us a moving camera that sticks to the bodies and transcribes the shots. If you can complain about a rather agreed revenge story, you can't resist it. Farang Hey! On the one hand empathy for the small family cell is immediate (the young Dara embodied by Chananticha Tang-Kwa is great in the film), but the swelling of action scenes to reach a hallucinating climax of violence is taken from end to end.
John Wick in the closet
Let's still touch a word about the sound design, perfectly mastered and distilled the materiality of each shot – a real uppercut of bass – and a photograph alternating between moist darkness and urban neon that ends up convincing us. If John Wick 4 Surprised his spectator with his incredible castagna-sequence plans, it is clear that the effectiveness of the Farang Put poor John in the closet.
In short, a nice proposition from People before his Sharks for Netflix, where he would reintervene Nassim Lyes this time alongside Berenice Béjo for a story of sharks in the Seine... Case to follow!
[...] During the FEFFS in Strasbourg, we were able to talk with Sandra Parfait in the role of Conann 35 who is beginning to mature in the film. The young French actress signed her first feature film with Mandico and will soon be in Xavier Gens's Sharks in Paris (Farang). [...]
[...] a great French name. From Frontier(s) to the Farang uppercut which he had loved at NIFFF, he slalomed between the genres with a taste of [...]