English title: A Bad Son.
After serving a drug-related prison sentence in the U.S., young man returns to France and reestablishes a link with his father. During his absence, his mother died after a long period of depression.
This is a film without concessions to melodrama, and with no comic relief; it's basically life as a prison cell. The father-son relationship is the stronger side of the film, with very interesting nuances and a marvelous performance by Yves Robert. On the other hand, I found the protagonist's love relationship to be unconvincing and badly done in some aspects. To begin with, it's hardly credible that a government program of rehabilitation and reinsertion would place two former drug addicts close to each other; also, I don't see how he would fall instantly in love with a woman who treats him coldly and has no exceptionally attractive physical traits.
Rating: 58
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