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An entertaining and pretty (in a classy way) period cop comedy drama that doesn't fluidily fuse its sides, the long duration (in a rather well edited film) probably didn't encourage it to do so.
Vu sur ARTE.

Among the many organisations (KKK, activism, police) parallels, the mirroring of extremists buffoonery was refreshing, highlighting the absurdity of everything (disagreeing with the idea it makes anyting seem less bad than it is). The attempts at refering to current issues rather than the period's ones are often awkward (even though the film intelligently avoids the "anti-police" trend).
The Cyrano aspect, a tool for thrills, visual metaphor and comedy, might be too convenient but given everything it allows, shouldn't be a problem especially with the overall absurd take the filmThe absurd take also excuses the nonsensical premise the whole cop intrigue is built on (the need for two men to play one).

Please, though, stop insisting on putting "true story" prompts to begin a film when it's absolutely not the film's point. (Maybe it's a wink?)

Score: 7/10
Enjoyment: 3/5

The constant "brother" / "sister" thing was personnally so annoying though.

"Our culture born in Europe", yeah sure...

Also, this is what's wrong with the americanised/internet era and its obsessions:

«I never used to think about it. Now I think about it all the time.»