The Villain

With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.

Our read · The Villain (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · heist entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Cast constellation

9 Month Stretch

2013

2 cast reunion

Albert Dupontel · Nicolas Marié

same tone

Bye Bye Morons

2020

2 cast reunion

Albert Dupontel · Nicolas Marié

same tone

Locked Out

2006

2 cast reunion

Albert Dupontel · Nicolas Marié

same tone

Second Tour

2023

2 cast reunion

Albert Dupontel · Nicolas Marié

same tone

Albert Dupontel

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Catherine Frot

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Bouli Lanners

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Louise-Michelsame toneEldoradosame toneLulu in the Nudesame tone

Nicolas Marié

actor path

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