Kirpianuscus cold, dark, precise. portrait of a serial killer using details and suggestion. a splendid role of Guillaume Canet. and a lot of questions. because it is not exactly adaptation of a case. but picture of society. because it is not presents motifs or excuses , not gives an anti-hero, not use drops of romanticism. it is only a cold image about a man and his crimes. Ana Girardot is a nice surprise. inspired option for remind another kind of Sonia from Crime and Punishment. the images, the dialogs, the story. nothing as part of a classic crime. only as support of reflexion. about universe as puzzle from Ionesco's small crumbs from his plays.

Kicino I always like movies based on true stories. I also like suspense story. This one is interesting as it is a crime story and the suspect is also a law enforcer. This French thriller is based on a true story where a gendarmerie (a type of national security force in France) shot young women at random between in 1978 and 1979. The strange and fascinating thing is he was assigned to investigate his own case. The movie is quite thrilling and haunting. As the story is told from the perspective of this sick man, we follow him around and witness all his strange acts towards himself: he has a habit of self-torture – barb- wired himself, take icy bath and beat himself up. He lives alone though he has a family whom he does not seem to be close to. He has a habit of distancing himself from society and his family. On relationship, he seems to have difficulty with intimacy even though he has an admirer. Obviously he is sick and needs help. The horrible thing is he has a reputable job and seems to function well. He is in the gendarmerie which enables him to use guns and a command of respect from innocent women. Don't his colleagues and admirer notice anything? If so what do they do? If not, why not? It is buzzard and keeps you on the edge of worrying who will be the next victim and how he will be caught. It is more thrilling as we do not know which part is true and which part is pure fiction.Now the story itself is interesting but I wish there would be more description/insights on how and why he became who he was, as well as how he was trapped. The tempo is a bit slow so it feels kind of dragging. But the acting was good and on the whole it is quite engaging to watch, particularly if you are interested in personality development.

GUENOT PHILIPPE First, let me explain what a gendarme is, for no french viewers: a gendarme is a sort of military who is in charge of police duty. So, this said, this story is inspired from actual events that occurred thirty six years ago, in the north of France. A serial killer killed many young women, without rape, and it appeared that the murderer was a gendarme, who also investigated on his OWN crimes. Of course, every movie buff will think of Joseph Lewis' SO DARK THE NIGHT, where Steven Geray had the nearly same character Guillaume Canet has here. Guillaume Canet is outstanding in this film. I think he has never been better anywhere else. An astonishing performance. Nothing to argue about the film making or acting. A tremendous piece of work.

cronostitan NEXT TIME I AIM HEART is the perfect example of what could have been a very good movie: one emphasize at first the narrative pulled by a "true story" then one tells the tale with showing the murders with the at least strange behavior of the killer, a french cop in real life - military side. Exactly thus like a TV documentary which does not possess a point of view, the director tells everything whereas the spectator's guessing facts...What then ? Why this movie would be better that any rag paper as" The New Detective? There is, regrettably, no reason for it because the mechanism of the pathos is played with the regularity of a Swiss clock of one vulgar funny gag of Naked Gun's movie. Not to mention the music which is only re-underlining the drama of the story, in case to we would have understood nothing at all !Nevertheless in spite of these heavy and dumb brass instruments, the performance of Canet is rather good, and does not suffer by any lack of realism, as well as some ones wrote it in the press critics. And then some sequences add curiously to the suspense of the movie climax - for example the scene of pursuit in Peugeot 604. Nevertheless the movie quotes in forest are worth the manual of a perfect boy scout, but on the other hand, are suffering from giant clichés but hold more or less the road, especially if you have already read Baden Powell back in your life: easy to understand, it is all quite black or all quite white exactly like a suburban sky.So, cut off the sound and you'll be feeling in the end watching yourself a giallo more or less made in the 70's, sent only straight to video. And I know what I'm talking about...