See How They Fall(Regarde les hommes tomber)

Name: See How They Fall
Genre: Drama, Thriller

France · 1994
1h 30m
Director Jacques Audiard
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne, Mathieu Kassovitz, Bulle Ogier
Genre Drama, Thriller

Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, Simon's story is related with Marx and Johnny's one. But the thriller is only a pretext for a psychological description of the three main characters.

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The New York Times by Caryn James

The script, which he wrote with Alain Le Henry, is as confusing and tiresome as the direction. What is meant to be a touching, comic relationship between Marx and Johnny is simply flat.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

See How They Fall"shows an ambitious director well on his way to being the master of his game.

Variety by Lisa Nesselson

See How They Fall, a deft interlocking tale of two small-time hoods and an unlikely avenger, is morally ambiguous and dosed with irony in the noir tradition. Dark, compelling helming debut by veteran scripter Jacques Audiard should do nicely at Gallic wickets and rack up healthy tube sales.

Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez

See How They Fall is at its best when coasting on the chemistry between scheming Max and childlike Johnny, whose odd- couple relationship arises out of necessity and ends up as something closer to father and son. First-time director Jacques Audiard toys with the story's timeline and wraps things up with a subtly cold-blooded ending that earns the film its noir status with a wink and a bitter smile. [10 Feb 1995, p.19G]