abigailbfay Chaos is an amazing film. The filming techniques are dramatic, lending to the sense of constant stress that permeates the movie. Not only is Chaos pertinent, compiling issues of Maghrebin immigrants and modern French society with the secret horrors of the sex trade. I admit, many of the scenes were so disturbing to watch - or, rather, to imagine, since the most gruesome aspects of prostitution were left unshown - and it is impossible for me to comprehend how such things could continue in our modern world. This film exposes things no one wants to believe, but it leaves the viewer with an inspiring thought: that redemption is possible, friends are true, and justice can be done.

dromasca 'Chaos' is a very surprising movie from many points of view. Director Coline Serreau drives a quite complex story, changes pace and uses different techniques all along the film, and so succeeds to keep the interest at pick for the whole duration of the movie.It starts like a bourgeois drama - a couple in Paris refuses to help a young girl attacked by a gang of criminals. He is a total jerk, as are the majority of the male characters in the movie, but the wife followed by remorse searches for the young girl in the hospital and basically saves her life and supports her in the recovery process. The psychological drama in the first part of the film turns into a sordid gang story later with almost Terentinesque touches when we learn that the young prostitute is followed by her employers who are ready to bring her back at any price and not only for her services.Well filmed and acted, with a remarkable performance from Rachida Brakni in the principal role the film succeeds to be convincing despite its very sharp and maybe too explicit social stands. The main character is a victim of sexual exploitation by men, as well as of oppression as a young woman in her family of Algerian origin and the authors make no secret where the guilt lies. The cinema qualities of the film avoid turning it into a manifest on screen and by providing an enjoyable and interesting film experience the message makes it better to the viewers.

TanjBennett .. with a bit of everything thrown in. The characters are all somewhat exagerated of course but this is cinema. Though many comments say the husband is absurd, he is simply a compression of many typical events into a shorter span of time (actually, the recovery in hospital takes a month, so the speed of his unravelling is not so unlikely). And nothing really suprising about the son too, not if you've been paying attention to your teen peers at college and visited France recently. So, though there is definately a touch of caricature at work it works well. Noemi is also exagerated, especially the Swiss activities and the flamethrower effect, but this is a film right? Not nearly as exagerated as your typical Hollywood thriller.On the whole the pace moves well, the story builds about right, the comedic touch lightens up a dark plot, you wonder how it will get resolved, and at the end you see the resolution is not going to hold together. Notice the only obliviously happy smile was the final frame of the film, the other three sitting on the bench are not at all finished (nice acting throughout, by the way). And for that matter the husband and son may have even come out of the wringer with some improvements. I enjoyed it.On DVD, color was good, imagery at times blurred by panning, sound quality ok and unmemorable. Occasional interludes of gorgeous scenery or cityscapes.You can bet Hollywood will pick up this script and remake it. Except of course they won't dare touch the social commentary about the Algerian family, she'll be a nice kid from clueless suburbs in the remake. And they'll doubtless make the sex and violence more explicit.

George Parker "Chaos" is a subtitled French flick about a middle aged couple who make no effort to help a street hooker who is being beaten by three men. As this dramedy unfolds, the wife finds the hooker in the hospital, helps nurse her back to health, and thus begins a long relationship which carriers them into a variety of situations including revenge wreaked upon a pimp, some payback for to the bad Samaritan husband, the rescue of an Algerian girl who is about to be sold into marriage, etc. The film is a technically good effort. However, the comedic and dramatic components don't work together but rather work against each other diluting their efficacy and rendering the film a matter of curiosity rather than a vehicle for entertainment. Pass on this one unless you have a taste for clumsy feminist subtitled black comedy. (B-)