Cavale

Cavale (English: On the Run; also known as Trilogy: One) is a 2002 film directed by, written by, and starring Lucas Belvaux.

This is the first installment of the Trilogy series. It constitutes a thriller, and is followed by Two: Un couple épatant, which is a comedy, and Three: Après la vie, which is a melodrama.

In the DVD commentary, Belvaux explained that the main idea behind Trilogy is that the main characters in a particular story can be seen as the secondary characters in others; in such sense, the three films happen at the same time and share a series of common scenes and plot points, complementing each other, but also have their own perspective and style. The audience is left with the duty of piecing the films together, which Belvaux avoided, since editing the three films into one single narrative would have resulted in a very long film with no style of its own.

Cast

Plot

Most of the film is silent and there are just as few dialogue lines as necessary.

In the initial sequence during the opening credits, in a black screen the audience can hear different sounds of prison gates opening and someone walking down corridors, then shouts are heard and the audience is brought just outside the prison where Bruno Le Roux, a former leftist revolutionary, has just escaped. An accomplice in a mask, Jean-Jean, is waiting for him, he shoots the searchlights and both climb into a car and escape through the streets into the country. They come across a police blockade but manage to escape through a hail of bullets. The next morning Bruno lies on the grass, Jean-Jean is dead. Bruno takes everything in the car and disguises himself.