Ombline: Tame His Demons
When it comes to the prison world cinema, it is mostly the men is shown, the Party of Pierre Falardeau to Jacques Audiard's A Prophet. In TV, Unit 9 unveils the women, and the French film Ombline happens almost like additional information showing the particular situation of those who give birth in prison.
Ombline 20 years ago and discovered pregnant shortly after the beginning of his detention, which will last four years. Alone in the world, the young woman who knows how to express themselves through violence will drive the learning of motherhood enclosed between four walls. In France, the mother can stay with the baby for 18 months in the protected bubble of the nursery: it will be enough to qu'Ombline learn to love, to protect and to do everything possible to retain custody after exit prison.
There are untenable scenes in this movie, a rare hardness. As when, in the hospital, handcuffed to the woman about to give birth is happening. Ombline or when, exasperated by the screams of prisoners and his newborn baby crying, loses control. Or the center stage - and most heartbreaking - the film, where it should resolve to let his little Lucas, and she fainted after exchanging with him one last look.
In his first film, director Stéphane Cazes avoid Manichaeism. Yes, the context of the prison is hard, but you would make allies - even among the guards. It shows that women who are imprisoned come from hard backgrounds, they often have a father, an uncle, a partner in prison and they are a kind of hard to break atavism. And most importantly, it shows that despite all appearances, Ombline can get to be a good mother if he is given the chance.
At the heart of this bitter film that lets in brief moments of light, intense Mélanie Thierry takes his character with both hands and delivers a performance inhabited. She endorsed the shadows of Ombline, which too often leaves dominated by rage and anger, and shows its efforts to dominate his impulses. But it also lets the emotion flush in a final may be a little melodramatic compared to the retention of the film. But is not it normal that the tears flow when they were retained throughout his life?
When it comes to the prison world cinema, it is mostly the men is shown, the Party of Pierre Falardeau to Jacques Audiard's A Prophet. In TV, Unit 9 unveils the women, and the French film Ombline happens almost like additional information showing the particular situation of those who give birth in prison.
Ombline 20 years ago and discovered pregnant shortly after the beginning of his detention, which will last four years. Alone in the world, the young woman who knows how to express themselves through violence will drive the learning of motherhood enclosed between four walls. In France, the mother can stay with the baby for 18 months in the protected bubble of the nursery: it will be enough to qu'Ombline learn to love, to protect and to do everything possible to retain custody after exit prison.
In his first film, director Stéphane Cazes avoid Manichaeism. Yes, the context of the prison is hard, but you would make allies - even among the guards. It shows that women who are imprisoned come from hard backgrounds, they often have a father, an uncle, a partner in prison and they are a kind of hard to break atavism. And most importantly, it shows that despite all appearances, Ombline can get to be a good mother if he is given the chance.
At the heart of this bitter film that lets in brief moments of light, intense Mélanie Thierry takes his character with both hands and delivers a performance inhabited. She endorsed the shadows of Ombline, which too often leaves dominated by rage and anger, and shows its efforts to dominate his impulses. But it also lets the emotion flush in a final may be a little melodramatic compared to the retention of the film. But is not it normal that the tears flow when they were retained throughout his life?