Since its premiere on February 25, no respite leads the list of the most watched foreign language films in Netflix. The French film, directed by Regis Blondeau (in his film debut), mixes the action and the characters of corrupt police officers in fiction to bring to life this proposal for the cinema that is about deception and the dangers that triggered an event much darker than it seems.
The story centers on Thomas Blin (Frank Gastambide), a policeman who has just lost his mother. Returning from the funeral, he is driving and makes a sudden maneuver to avoid running over a dog on the road, however, this action ends up taking the life of a man. The decision he made instantly was to take the body and hide it, although that singular accident will cause a series of events to begin to disturb his life.
“After stopping at nothing to hide an accident, a corrupt cop’s life spirals out of control when he receives threats from a mysterious witness.”, indicates the official synopsis. The protagonist will do everything possible to continue covering up the crime he committed to the point where he does not know himself and loses all the qualities that led him to be a law enforcement officer at some point in the past.
This is Blondeau’s debut feature and brings together Franck Gastambide, Simon Abkarian, Michael Abiteboul and Tracy Gotoas in its main cast. no respite it is a remake of the korean film A Hard Day (2014), a black comedy by Kim Seong-hun starring Lee Sun-kyun and Cho Jin-woong. This new production filmed in France premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was launched worldwide by integrating the catalog of Netflixthus becoming a resounding success in the Top foreign films on the platform streaming.
Until last March 6, the title has been viewed for more than 26 million hours by users during its first two weeks of launch and has the first place in the list that they also occupy Pirates: the last treasure of the crown, Chernobyl 1986, Through my window, Tactics of love, The unhappy, A woman without a filter, My wonderful life, UFO and Valentine’s wedding.
no respite it is not the only remake of the korean movie
In 2017, the first remake of A Hard Day under the title of Peace Breaker, a Chinese action thriller directed by Lien Yi-chi; and in the Philippines, it was screened in 2021 under the same name as the original South Korean film. The third version to arrive was the French production of Regis Blondeau and with the leading role of Frank Gastambide
no respite is available to view at Netflix from February 25.
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