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Oh Mercy!

2019 film

Oh Mercy! (French: Roubaix, une lumière, lit. 'Roubaix, a light') is a 2019 French crime drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. The film was inspired by the 2008 TV documentary Roubaix, commissariat central, directed by Mosco Boucault.[2] It stars Roschdy Zem, Léa Seydoux, Sara Forestier, and Antoine Reinartz. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[3][4]

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Plot

One Christmas night in Roubaix, the local police chief Daoud, and Louis, a fresh recruit, are confronted with the violent murder of an elderly woman. The victim's two young, female neighbours, Claude and Marie, are arrested.[5]

Cast

  • Roschdy Zem as Daoud
  • Léa Seydoux as Claude
  • Sara Forestier as Marie
  • Antoine Reinartz as Louis
  • Chloé Simoneau as Judith
  • Betty Catroux as De Kayser
  • Jérémy Brunet as Aubin
  • Stéphane Duquenoy as Benoît
  • Philippe Duquesne as Dos Santos
  • Anthony Salamone as Kovalki
  • Ilyes Bensalem as Farid
  • Abdellatif Sedegui as Soufia's father
  • Sylvie Moreaux as Soufia's mother
  • Diya Chalaoui as Fatia Belkacem
  • Bouzid Bouhdida as Soufia's uncle
  • Maïssa Taleb as Soufia Duhamel-Hami

Release

The film had its world premiere in the Competition section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 22 May 2019.[6] It was released in France on 21 August 2019.[7]

Reception

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 59% based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 5.4/10.[8] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9]

David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a grade of C−, writing, "Forestier and Seydoux are both fantastically desperate as dead end citizens who met each other at a very dangerous time in their lives, but Desplechin fails to make full use of his actors; instead of allowing them to shade in their characters, he pummels the audience into an ambiguous state of forced sympathy."[10] Chuck Bowen of Slant Magazine gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, commenting that "The film's master image is among the greatest images of Desplechin's career: the women, recreating their strangulation of the victim for the police, briefly hold their hands together under the victim's pillow."[11]

Accolades

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References

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    "Roubaix, une lumière". Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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    "Roubaix, une lumière". AlloCiné. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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    "Oh Mercy! (Roubaix, Une Lumière) (2019)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
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    "Oh Mercy! Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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    Ehrlich, David (22 May 2019). "'Oh Mercy!' Review: Leá Seydoux Is Totally Wasted in Arnaud Desplechin's Flat Procedural". IndieWire. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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    Bowen, Chuck (16 September 2019). "Review: Oh Mercy! Is a Bracing Study of Violence Born of Helplessness". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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    Engelen, Aurore (7 October 2019). "Oh Mercy! wins the Bayard d'or at the Namur Film Festival". Cineuropa. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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    Roxborough, Scott (27 January 2020). "France's Lumiere Awards: 'Les Misérables' Wins Best Film, Roman Polanski Tapped as Best Director". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
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    Abouchahla, Pierre (28 January 2020). "Le 16e Prix Jacques-Deray est attribué à Roubaix, une lumière". Écran total. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
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    "Arnaud Desplechin a reçu le 16e Prix Jacques-Deray du film policier français à l'Institut Lumière". Le Progrès. 25 February 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
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    Roxborough, Scott (28 February 2020). "'Les Miserables' Wins Best Film at Cesar Awards, Polanski Takes Best Director". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
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