I am surprised to watch a short film, with the potential and budget of a long length movie, in the Jean Pierre Jeunet style. It takes place in Paris in 1912, with a fantastic and seemingly accurate production design; again, very surprising for a short feature. This kind of material is usually a first making for a young director, who has not a big budget at his or her disposal, so very few pressure from producers, and has so much freedom for creation, even with less money to "create". That stimulates even more the imagination to create. So, back to this feature, the dialogues and character symphony is not that exciting. The main problem is that was produced by TFI garbage channel, a channel destined for the bulk of French audiences, under fifty home wife.... If it would have been made, ordered by for instance Arte channel it would have been far different, be sure of that. It is short but somewhat boring, such a shame, because the atmosphere of the old Paris underworld, at the beginning of the twentieth century, in the CASQUE D'OR manner, could have been far better told. The acting is corny but the ending really worth, action scenes too. Very rare for TF1 to propose such ending; now I wait for a long length version of this good "potential" story.
