2017 · adventure · crime · drama
Papillon
Directed by Michael Noer2h 14m2017
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
Our read: Papillon (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded adventure · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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